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From: sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflästerer)
Subject: Re: Ist multipart/mixed really correct?
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:58:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ptiux1zp.fsf@hamster.pflaesterer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m37k52ua12.fsf@defun.localdomain>

On 24 Aug 2003, Jesper Harder <- harder@myrealbox.com wrote:

> sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflästerer) writes:

>> from a discussion in another newsgroup about the fact that Gnus under
>> special circumstances does create multipart postings we thought about
>> the correct value for the mime header.

>> Gnus declares the posting as multipart/mixed but according to rfc 2046
>> multipart/parallel seems to be the correct alternative. WDYT?

> Hard to say without knowing which special circumstances you're
> thinking about.

Sorry the reason was so obvious to me I didn't mention it: I you have a
posting with different charcter encodings which can't be unified you get
multipart/mixed.

   KP

-- 
   Mary had a little lambda,
   Its syntax white as snow,
   And every program Mary wrote,
   She wrote in Lisp, you know.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-24 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-24 18:09 Karl Pflästerer
2003-08-24 18:36 ` iMeowbot
2003-08-24 19:32 ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-24 19:58   ` Karl Pflästerer [this message]
2003-08-24 20:38     ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-24 21:51       ` Karl Pflästerer

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