> Isaac, > Is there any particular reason you preface the boundary > var with > "=_NextPart_"? That's not something I'm doing. I've > looked at the > gargantuan list of RFC's at http://faqs.org (rotten search > facilities) > and it doesn't appear to be a requirement. I've seen that > used on some > message source I've examined, but that's it. Were you > mimicing > something that worked already (:D) or have a specific > reason for that?
> Cheers, > --Matt Robertson-- > MSB Designs, Inc. > http://mysecretbase.com No it's not a requirement -- I found an article that mentioned that they tend to just use #createuuid()# by itself for the boundary. I left the prefix "=_NextPart_." in just because I've seen it used and figured it couldn't hurt -- the purpose of using a uuid() is to make the boundary string unique, because you could just as well use "nextpart" by itself as the boundary, however, if by random chance, someone types "--nextpart" into an email this might cause a problem. The prefix is human readable though it's not very likely to be read by a human for any real reason, and the uuid() "ensures" uniqueness. So yea, I was mimicking something that was already working. :) I think I did that originally because I was looking at the headers on an incoming email that my client recognized as a properly formatted html message. My client doesn't recognize a lot of email that's supposed to be html because it's not properly formatted, like it was intended for Outlook and AOL ( which ignore the standards in favor of forcing html on people ). Unfortunately email standards seem to get the same kind of adherance that html got in the early web days. At least that's what I've heard and I seem to get a lot of improperly formatted spam and some improperly formatted legitimate email from people I know. Isaac Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer www.turnkey.to 954-776-0046 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
