[kde] Re: RFC question

In <201011101225.05209.gheskett@xxxxxxxx>, gene heskett wrote:
Greetings;

Is it 'legal' for a single MIME'd message containing many parts, to re-
specify the
boundary=string
more than once in the same message?

It is possible to "nest" multipart/* types--same or different. Each of these
must specify the boundary= option AND each boundary must be different.

So the structure of a message is allowed to look like this (IIRC):
+ multipart/alternative (a)
+ multipart/yowsa (b)
+ vendor/wonka
+ image/omgwtfbbq
+ multipart/alternative (c)
+ image/mng
+ image/gif
+ image/png
+ multipart/mixed (d)
+ text/html
+ image/jpeg
+ text/plain

So, each of the multipart/* objects (a-d) would have a different boundary
setting.

This question generated by a windows email agent that is doing that as it
sends me stuff, and in order to see the full message I find I must enable
the message structure viewpane, and then click on the html subtree before I
can see the whole message's jpegs etc. Otherwise nothing below the 2nd
boundary= statement is visible.

I've seen that stuff. I doubt those messages are using a standardized format,
but KMail should try and be better about that, providing the normal "click
here to view HTML" option.
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