On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 22:55:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I subscribe to the digest mode, and have noticed that every message in
>the digest includes the following headers: Message-ID, From, To, Date,
>MIME-Version, Content-Type, Content-Transfer-Encoding, and Subject.
>Isn't this a bit of overkill? IMO the From, Date, and Subject fields
>should be sufficient. The other fields seem to do nothing but eat
>bandwidth
Sorry, but many of those are just standard SMTP headers. If, for
example, Message-ID is missing, one or the other SMTP server will add
one. MIME-Version is slighhtly different, as this says to your mail
program that this is indeed a message in MIME format; as for
"Content-Type" and "Content-Transfer-Encoding": if these were missing,
it is well possible that your mail program will show the mails in a
corrupted form.
--
Bart.
