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Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk> writes:

> How do I set things up so that message/external-body works sensibly?

Oh; that hasn't been implemented at all yet.  :-)

> Also, when I edited the message and saved it again (and the MIME->MML
> and MML->MIME stuff is very cool, BTW), everything worked OK except
> that the bodypart of the message/external-body (containing the
> Content-type and Content-ID) was base64 encoded, which is specifically
> disallowed by rfc2046, so I suspect a bug in the MML processing, or at
> least a poor default (by default, it ought to produce 7bit, even
> though I can't imagine MUAs failing to cope with base64 in this
> context).

Sounds like a bug, but I think it should wait until we actually
support message/external-body.

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