Hi there!
On 1 Oct 99, at 1:31, Quin Selman wrote
about "MS-TNEF":
> What is that MS-TNEF Base 64 extension that appears in The Bat!'s
> attachment window on some Microsoft mail messages? What does it open
> in? I see > Content-Type: multipart/mixed. I've never understood
> what that means exactly.
First one. Multipart/mixed means that this message consists of
some parts: either text and attachments, or some textual parts,
or something else. Note that this *doesn't* apply to HTML
messages or such: in this latter case Multipart/mixed becomes
multipart/alternative to denote that there are *two* (alternative)
versions of the *same* text: one *with* fancy formatting, the
other without. Basically the correct MIME structure looks as
follows:
<main headers (kludges in TB's terminology)>
Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="==boundary=="
<some text, invisible in most cases, saying usually that since
you are shown it, your mail reader doesn't support MIME>
--==boundary==
<first part headers (kludges)>
<first part>
--==boundary==
<second part headers>
<second part>
...........
<last part>
--==boundary==--
This construct can be nested, that is, each part can be a
multipart/mixed itself. Then this must be stated in the
correspoding <N'th part headers>. HTH.
Second one. MS-TNEF. It's the special format used by M$. It
*may* contain nothing but the "fancy" formatting for the
message (in this case you don't loose anything), but in some
cases it *may* contain attachments (only inline, AFAIK, that is,
basically pictures), then you need to be able to decode these.
The program named FENTUN can serve you here. The problem
is I can't remember the exact URL for this. If nobody on TBUDL
remembers it (I've posted it here once a few months ago, but
then lost the link myself:-((), you might be able to get it via
ftpsearch (ftpsearch.lycos.com).
SY, Alex
(St.Petersburg, Russia)
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