In a recent thread, Dan Ross had mentioned some "failed mail" messages coming to him from a server (or a few servers) which appeared to be blank. I had an idea, and Dan passed on the header of the email to me for a peek, and I think I've narrowed the trouble. Of course, it made me more curious and gave me a question of my own:
How does PowerMail handle the various MIME types of multipart/xxxxxx? Does it read them at all? In Dan's case, the email was a "multipart/report". (It actually had two Content-types: multipart/report followed by lain/text, which I'm not sure is proper header etiquette, but I digress.) These are special MIME types meant to be displayed in some special way by the mail client as described in the following: Here is the 2003 RFC for proposed multipart/report: <http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/pipermail/rfc-dist/2003-January/000188.html> Here is the 1996 multipart/report info I found: <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1892.html> My assumption is that if PowerMail can even view multiparts, something is changing in the 2003 proposal and is affecting it. The multipart I'm most familiar with is "multipart/digest" for special viewing of email from lists like this one -- all email for a day or set time period collected into one email and formatted for client viewing. I haven't received any of these, even, since starting with PowerMail, and I'm fairly certain Claris eMailer never properly showed multipart/digest either. So, what's the story? Does PowerMail handle multipart stuff? If so, is it only certain multiparts and not others, is something changing, etc.? As Dan mentioned, Apple's Mail handled the multipart fine, so it's made me curious what would be making PowerMail not handle it, if it even can in the first place. The dual content-types? -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions 301-949-6385 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com
