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Subject: Re: MIME compatibility
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Date: 06 Sep 1997 16:56:42 -0500
To: BWhitloc @ micro . honeywell . com (Whitlock, Brad)
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM (majordomo-users)
In-reply-to: BWhitloc@micro.honeywell.com's message of Wed, 03 Sep 1997 12:30:41 -0500
References: <1997Sep03.123001.1650.836120@smtpmail.micro.honeywell.com>

>>>>> "WB" == Whitlock, Brad <BWhitloc@micro.honeywell.com> writes:

WB> Some mailers now seem to be putting not just non-ascii attachments but
WB> also the main body of the email behind a MIME header.

But if they're still sending text/plain, it will still be readable (sort of;
this is a bit hackish and will result in some garbage, but the commands
will still be processed).

WB> Presumably a MIME-aware majordomo would be able to read the MIME
WB> segments and process majordomo commands in them.

Well, only for text/plain, encoded however you want (q-p, base64).  I
certainly hope that Majordomo never tries to deal with commands in
text/html or application/x-msword.  Text should be text.

Now, the current development version is fully MIME aware and can handle
multipart messages with text/plain parts.  It can also use attachments as
arguments to commands (so you can subscribe a list of addresses which you
attach).

 - J<


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