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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I think the MML multipart tag needs some more explanation.  At least
> to me it's not quite clear what it does.
> 
> Okay, the examples in the emacs-mime info file are fairly clear.  But
> what they leave open to interpretation: suppose I compose a message,
> and the very first line of the body is a multipart tag, followed by a
> couple of part tags.
> 
> What does the whole message look like that comes out?
> 
> You see, if I just put several part tags in the body, then I get a
> multipart/mixed message, so maybe the same thing happens with a
> multipart tag.
> 
> I kinda suspect that under some circumstances the top-level MML tag
> will become the Content-Type of the whole message, whereas under some
> circumstances the Content-Type of the whole message will me
> multipart/mixed with the MML tags given as `children' of that.

If there are more than one top-level (implicit or explicit) parts in
the message, you will get a multipart/mixed Content-Type.

ShengHuo