Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Per Hedeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted >[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, >09 Aug 2007 10:20:18 +0200: > >>>Appears to me that the "body" of this post is really the first >>>attachment of five, the last four being jpegs. >> >> This is the way MIME works - the term "attachment" is really a misnomer >> in the MIME world, MIME doesn't have attachments, it has multipart >> messages such as this one (which is a different thing than the >> "multiparts" we often talk about in the pan context) - in typical >> "attachment" usage as shown here, the overall Content-Type is >> multipart/mixed, with the first part being Content-Type text/plain and >> containing the text that the user composed, and the other parts >> "something else" (or they can be text/plain too if you "attached" text >> files of course). > >[snip the rest for length, great tho it was] > >I think you actually did better on explaining that part of MIME this time >than I would have, particularly since I was contemplating a "short >form" (for me) version this time, covering only the content in question. >But you covered it so well there's no much left to say. =8^) > >See guys, I'm not the only one that can write such nice detailed >explanations!
And yet I tried to be brief.:-) --Per Hedeland _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
