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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