On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 01:47:25 pm Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. did
opine:
> 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.
Instead, and this is kde-4.5.3, pclos, it claims in the little edge message
to the left of the message view window, that it is a "no html message",
when the message structure at the bottom of the message view window does
show an html component, which if clicked on shows it properly I believe. I
would have to call this a bug, but enabling the message structure window
does enable the viewing of the whole thing once the html is clicked on in
the message structure window. But I cannot get enough of it onscreen at
once to be able to determine if the nesting is proper. Typically one of the
"offenders" is a megabyte or more.
Lets hope 4.5.4 handles this better. ;-)
Thank you Boyd, for the prompt response.
I have included one of the senders of such in my replies To: list. From
this it isn't possible to point a finger at the errant program other than to
say there seems to be a minor incompatibility between them.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
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