* On 2002.04.23, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
* "Dave Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Any chance making it adding the information as an additional X- header?
>
> Well, I've asked. Well see what happens. For the moment, it appears
> to have stopped doing it - whether that's due to complaints (mine or
> others), or for other reasons, I don't know.
I'd think it alright for them to prepend a text/plain part, so long as
they take particular care with the other data.
1. Extract the original content-type, etc. headers
2. Change those headers to multipart/mixed
3. Insert the text/plain part
4. Wrap the original MIME parts in a new part with the content-type
copied from the header in step 1.
5. Do not alter any data or MIME headers inside the MIME parts.
So something that looks like:
Content-type: text/rtf
would become
Content-type: multipart/mixed
Content-type: text/plain [virus thing]
Content-type: text/rtf [original message]
And something that looks like:
Content-type: multipart/signed
Content-type: text/plain
Content-type: image/gif
Content-type: application/pgp-signature
would become:
Content-type: multipart/mixed
Content-type: text/plain [virus thing]
Content-type: multipart/signed [original message]
Content-type: text/plain
Content-type: image/gif
Content-type: application/pgp-signature
You can probably do this on your end with a nice little shell script
(and a filter such as procmail), if you know exactly how they break
things. But better if they fix it like this from above.
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-D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago
