For MIME messages, why not just attach the Approval as a separate MIME
section? That's more or less exactly why the standard was invented in the
first place. Dropping the Approval before distribution, assuming you're
handling MIME bundles in the first place, becomes trivial.
Brock wrote:
>I remember being the one who did most of the design for this feature and
>the current method of approving messages. Going back to what we had
>originally decided upon and accepted:
>
>The Approved: line in the body meant that it had to be in the FIRST line
>after the headers of the message -- as it would be unreasonable to look
>for it anywhere else. So that probably means that it would have to be the
>first line in the message or first line in the first part of the MIME
>message.
>
>We included this feature for broken e-mail programs that don't let you
>include your own headers. Unfortunately, Netscape Communicator still
>doesn't let you include your own headers -- so this feature is still very
>important.
--
Tom Neff <tneff@panix.com> <URL:http://www.panix.com/~tneff/>
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