From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19097 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: amu@mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MIME tests one and two results - Outlook Express Date: 23 Nov 1998 23:27:06 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157509 9831 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:45:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA19286 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:27:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAB27256; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 22:27:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 23 Nov 1998 22:27:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA24739 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 22:27:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from tux.mit.edu (TUX.MIT.EDU [18.239.1.134]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA19260 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:27:14 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from amu@localhost) by tux.mit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA14874; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:27:07 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Wes Hardaker's message of "23 Nov 1998 13:25:13 -0500" Original-Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.44/Emacs 20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19097 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19097 Wes Hardaker writes: > >>>>> On 22 Nov 1998 08:26:00 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen said: > > Lars> The multipart/altenative only showed the text/enriched part, and > Lars> didn't indicate in any way that there were alternatives. And it > Lars> didn't even render the text/enriched part correctly. Very > Lars> interesting. > > I think many mailers treat the alternative as "their choice" type of > actions, not "users choice". That's what emime does, and what section 5.1.4 of RFC 2046 suggests: Systems should recognize that the content of the various parts are interchangeable. Systems should choose the "best" type based on the local environment and references, in some cases even through user interaction. As with "multipart/mixed", the order of body parts is significant. In this case, the alternatives appear in an order of increasing faithfulness to the original content. In general, the best choice is the LAST part of a type supported by the recipient system's local environment. (Emime is Marc Horowitz's MIME-parsing code for Gnus; the version I use is available at .) -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)