From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Subject: Re: [9fans] mime
From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: <20001122211322.49A82199FF@mail.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:13:20 -0500
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	However, I'm still perplexed as to what to put in the header
	of a multipart message.  Does the transfer encoding specified
	there pertain to the whole message or just to the

		nyah nyah, if you only had a MIME mailer you wouldn't see this

	message that starts every multipart message?

Just answered my own question.  Rfc2045 says:

	6.4.  Interpretation and Use

	If a Content-Transfer-Encoding header field appears as part of a
	message header, it applies to the entire body of that message.  If a
	Content-Transfer-Encoding header field appears as part of an entity's
	headers, it applies only to the body of that entity.  If an entity is
	of type "multipart" the Content-Transfer-Encoding is not permitted to
	have any value other than "7bit", "8bit" or "binary".

That makes my life much easier.  Someone must have been thinking.