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From: Nathan Williams <nwilliams@primeon.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: extra .ATT attachments?
Date: 16 Sep 1999 11:40:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wkwvtqvp90.fsf@primeon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lee Willis's message of "16 Sep 1999 16:34:24 +0100"

Lee Willis <lee@gbdirect.co.uk> writes:

> > text/plain (your real message)
> > foo/bar    (the attachment)
> > text/plain (your signature)
> 
> Which is a perfectly valid MIME message (AFAIK)
> 
> But what if I want my message then an attachment then my signature?
> Outlook should grok this. I s'pose I can see it's point from a common
> sense point of view (ie "attachments" should go at the end) but since it
> doesn't distinguish between "attachments" and "inline" MIME parts it's
> broken!

Okay, I concede that you might want to have multiple inline
parts. MIME certainly allows it, and Outlook probably should have some
concept of inline parts vs. "attachments". 

However, I think that in the case that brought this up, it is expected
that the signature be part of the traditional message body. I consider
this really a user interface problem on the Gnus side - an unfortunate
collision of the properties of MML and signature handling.

        - Nathan




  reply	other threads:[~1999-09-16 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-16  7:19 Jaap-Henk Hoepman
1999-09-16 15:08 ` Nathan Williams
1999-09-16 15:34   ` Lee Willis
1999-09-16 15:40     ` Nathan Williams [this message]
1999-09-16 18:27       ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-09-25  9:28       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-16 15:20 ` Jack Vinson
1999-09-16 16:57 ` Toby Speight
1999-09-16 17:25   ` Jody Klymak
1999-09-16 18:28     ` David S. Goldberg
1999-09-18 21:07       ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-17 21:40 ` Jack Vinson

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