Re: Re: Inserting MIME headers

[Glenn McCorkle]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 4:56:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Samuel W. Heywood) wrote:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Howard Schwartz wrote:

>> With regard to the suggestion that metamail or mpack can be used as
>> external programs to insert MIME headers in a mail message. It appears to
>> me that metamail will only help read incoming mail sent to me from
>> someone else. Am I missing something? Mpack apparently will encode
>> outgoing mail, but only for some MIME types.

> Greetings:

> I'm getting even with you guys for disparaging one of my favorite mailers
> by insinuating that NetMail cannot be set up so as to integrate very nicely
> with external programs such as mpack for encoding attachments and inserting
> MIME headers.  Behold, I send you an example:

> Sam Heywood
> - -- Message sent by NetMail DOS, v. 2.12 and using OLIM, v. 1.40

> - ---==========---
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="GET_EVEN.GIF"
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="GET_EVEN.GIF"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

 Excuse me Sam,
Since when is a .GIF an "application/octet-stream" ???

Arachne/Insight/mime.cfg correctly identify a .GIF as being "image/gif" ;-)

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 Glenn
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