On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:08:45 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Does Mahogany fully implement RFC-1341?

RFC-1341 was obsoleted by RFC-1521, which was itself obsoleted by
RFC-2045. As far as I know, M is pretty up-to-date with respect to MIME
in general.

What your correspondant seems to refer to is RFC-1740 (MIME
Encapsulation of Macintosh Files - MacMIME), which describes how a Mac
file is actually sent using two MIME parts, as you saw.

> ------ Forwarded message ------
> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:12:10 -0500
> Subject: Re: notes from last meeting
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On 25. Jan 2004, at 10:43 am, Alan G Isaac wrote:
> > Your email came with two attachments:
> > [Attachment: info_svc_9_12_2003.doc : APPLICATION/APPLEFILE, 524 bytes]
> > [Attachment: info_svc_9_12_2003.doc : APPLICATION/MSWORD, 44844 bytes]
>
> Actually, the first is the resource fork portion of the file -- it's a
> Macintosh thing. The fact that your e-mail client showed the two
> attachments separately means that it doesn't implement RFC-1341
> properly
>
> -------- End of message -------
>
> Specifically, is my correspondent correct that I should not see the
> resource fork "portion" of a file listed separately?

I think that your correspondant is correct that *on a Mac*, M should
know that those two parts actually are one single file. But on any other
machine, this should not be the case.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Xavier Nodet
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

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