From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/8887 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jacob Morzinski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: digests and MIME Date: 21 Nov 1996 01:58:46 -0500 Sender: jmorzins@w20-575-83.MIT.EDU Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035148996 15117 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:23:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:23:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 10305 invoked from smtpd); 21 Nov 1996 08:06:20 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by deanna.miranova.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 1996 08:06:19 -0000 Original-Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 07:58:50 +0100 Original-Received: from W20-575-83.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11528; Thu, 21 Nov 96 01:58:47 EST Original-Received: by w20-575-83.MIT.EDU (940816.SGI.8.6.9/4.7) id GAA02174; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 06:58:47 GMT Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 21 Nov 1996 03:29:03 +0100 Original-Lines: 56 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.37/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8887 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:8887 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > For all I know, it may be my screwed-up sendmail config that messes > things up... No, wait, it can't be, because my machine doesn't touch > mail that goes through ifi. Let's see... The sendmail at ifi *will* > encode things that "need" encoding, unless there already is a > "Mime-version: 1.0" header in there. Perhaps it doesn't like those > "Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.94)" headers? Does the > MIME standard allow that? My reading of the RFC's suggests that it does allow it. Here is an excerpt from RFC 1521, which seems to be the one that applies in this case: [begin excerpt] Therefore, this document defines a new header field, "MIME-Version", which is to be used to declare the version of the Internet message body format standard in use. Messages composed in accordance with this document MUST include such a header field, with the following verbatim text: MIME-Version: 1.0 The presence of this header field is an assertion that the message has been composed in compliance with this document. Since it is possible that a future document might extend the message format standard again, a formal BNF is given for the content of the MIME-Version field: version := "MIME-Version" ":" 1*DIGIT "." 1*DIGIT [..snip..] NOTE TO IMPLEMENTORS: All header fields defined in this document, including MIME-Version, Content-type, etc., are subject to the general syntactic rules for header fields specified in RFC 822. In particular, all can include comments, which means that the following two MIME-Version fields are equivalent: MIME-Version: 1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 (Generated by GBD-killer 3.7) [end excerpt] The Mime-version field was first defined in RFC 1341. I didn't find any more recent RFC's, overriding the header definition given here. (Of couse, the sendmail at ifi might not have been taught to ignore comments in the Mime-version header.) -- Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu