Re: MIME tests one and two results - Netscape and Eudora

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Matt Armstrong <matta@geoworks.com> writes:

> Screen shots of MIME tests one and two for both MUA's are at
> http://www.best.com/~mattdav/mime/

Interesting.

For the multipart/mixed, Netscape drew lines between each part, and
even centered the image/jpeg part.  For the multipart/alternative, it
didn't even indicate that it was such a message, it just displayed the 
image/jpeg part (centered).  Trés weird, in my opinion, to go so
overboard on the multipart/mixed and so minimal on the
multipart/alternative.  Hm.  Could you edit the "MIME Test One"
message to have a "Content-Disposition: inline" header in the
image/jpeg part to see if that makes any difference?

Eudora didn't attempt to display the multipart/mixed image part, but
just drew an icon and said "MimeAttachment" (sic).  Could you try with
that Content-Disposition thing with Eudora as well?  It didn't
understand multipart/alternative at all.

PC-Pine listed a "menu" after the headers, which was an OK way for a
text-based reader to do it.  The menu said what all the parts were,
and whether they were shown or not.

So, does anyone here have access to some Microsoft mail reader?  It
might be fun to see what it does.  And what does VM do?  And surely
there must be some MIME-aware unixoid mail/newsreader out there...
knews?  xrn?  trn?  slrn?

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