Re: MimeMap being silly.

On 22 Oct, Peter Young wrote in message
    <dc21859e53.pnyoung@...>:
 
> but the relevant lines seem to be:
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> immediately before the actual message.

No, that looks like the content type of the message text itself (hence the
"text/plain"). Each part of the message will have its own content type
specified at the top of the associated block of content.

For example, a recent email that I sent out with a PDF attachment (which you
might recognise) had the following in the message header:

  Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
  Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="_----------=_138049560267882";
      charset="iso-8859-1"

This told us that it was a multipart message (ie. one with attachments, or
perhaps with an HTML version included).  It then went on to finish that
section and start the first block of data -- in this case, the message body
(hence it being "inline").

  This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

  --_----------=_138049560267882
  Content-Disposition: inline
  Content-Length: 933
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
  Content-Type: text/plain

  Hi WROCC Member,

  Here is the October 2013 edition of The WROCC, in "one-up" A5 format.

The message body is plain text, and is the bit that you read in Messenger.

Once this ended, the attachment followed: being a PDF, it has the expected
type of "application/pdf".

  --_----------=_138049560267882
  Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="31.07-Oct13.pdf"
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
  Content-Type: application/pdf; name="31.07-Oct13.pdf"

  JVBERi0xLjMKJcfsj6IKNSAwIG9iago8PC9MZW5FIvRmlsdGVyIC9GbGF0ZURlY29k
  ZT4+CnN0cmVhbQrg5B+bxdcpkKUraAlxLGaINT5a9CEOKPc2FRkPIj7+EZr5rQ83Z/

There was then a lot of this, before the message finally ended.

  --_----------=_138049560267882--

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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