In <[email protected]>, on
01/18/2011
at 12:07 AM, zMan <[email protected]> said:
>No, DATA is the end of the envelope. SMTP doesn't know from MIME: it
>just knows envelope and body. MIME is content only, interpreted by
>the MUA, not the MTA. MIME is a red herring here.
It's true that MIME is not part of the SMTP transport (RFC 5321), but
it *is* part of the message format (RFC 5322), insofar as MIME adds
additional header fields.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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