At 9:10 PM -0700 1997/11/18, Adam Bailey wrote:
>The problem is, attachments are not really a standard. The way they're
>handled can vary from mailer to mailer, and from gateway to gateway.
>From RFC 1341:
Network Working Group N. Borenstein, Bellcore
Request for Comments: 1341 N. Freed, Innosoft
June 1992
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions):
Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing
the Format of Internet Message Bodies
...This document redefines the format of message
bodies to allow multi-part textual and non-textual message
bodies to be represented and exchanged without loss of
information....
In particular, this document is designed to provide
facilities to include multiple objects in a single message,
to represent body text in character sets other than US-
ASCII, to represent formatted multi-font text messages, to
represent non-textual material such as images and audio
fragments, and generally to facilitate later extensions
defining new types of Internet mail for use by cooperating
mail agents....
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