Handling multipart MIME messages correctly is very important. We need
to be able to fold and unfold each successive part, and choose which to
save. That little box on the upper right just doesn't make the grade.
In some respects, this is already better than 4.78, which opens and
then immediately closes the message window faster than can be seen!
This is especially important to me, as it is the reason I have to use another mailer
(Eudora) to read such messages. Eudora
doesn't handle it quite right, either, but at least Eudora displays it!
I receive a lot of IETF announce multipart messages, combining /mixed
with /alternative. Note the nesting:
==
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; Boundary="NextPart"
To: IETF-Announce: ;
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pppext-otp-00.txt
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:13:31 -0400
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Precedence: bulk
Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Mozilla-Status: 0000
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-UIDL: 9437893
--NextPart
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Point-to-Point Protocol Extensions Working Group of
the IETF.
Title : The One Time Password (OTP) and Generic Token Card
Authentication Protocols
Author(s) : L. Blunk, J. Vollbrecht, B. Aboba
Filename : draft-ietf-pppext-otp-00.txt
Pages : 12
Date : 16-Oct-01
EAP is an authentication protocol which supports multiple authentication
mechanisms. EAP typically runs directly over the link layer without
requiring IP and therefore includes its own support for in-order
delivery and re-transmission. While EAP was originally developed for
use with PPP, it is also now in use with IEEE 802. This document defines
the One Time Password (OTP) and Generic Token Card EAP methods.
A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pppext-otp-00.txt
To remove yourself from the IETF Announcement list, send a message to
ietf-announce-request with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message.
Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username
"anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in,
type "cd internet-drafts" and then
"get draft-ietf-pppext-otp-00.txt".
A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in
http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html
or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt
Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail.
Send a message to:
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In the body type:
"FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pppext-otp-00.txt".
NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in
MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this
feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE"
command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or
a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers
exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with
"multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split
up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on
how to manipulate these messages.
Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader
implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the
Internet-Draft.
--NextPart
Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative; Boundary="OtherAccess"
--OtherAccess
Content-Type: Message/External-body;
access-type="mail-server";
server="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ENCODING mime
FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pppext-otp-00.txt
--OtherAccess
Content-Type: Message/External-body;
name="draft-ietf-pppext-otp-00.txt";
site="ftp.ietf.org";
access-type="anon-ftp";
directory="internet-drafts"
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--OtherAccess--
--NextPart--
