Re: MIME messages without MIME-Version header

[ruth moulton <ruth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,
you mentioned x-uuencode - does any one know if/where there is
a definition of this, i.e. the use of uuencode with mime ?

ta
ruth

 > 
 > > 
 > > > Unfortunately HotMail sends out such messages - they look very much 
 > > >like MIME
 > > > messages with boundaries and mime headers and all, but they forgot to stick
 > > > in the MIME-Version header; they also use uuencode to encode binary data. 
 > > > (If the right folks are listening .. please fix this and spare us
 > > > client-writers some pain)
 > > 
 > > If they use UUENCODE, what do they put in the content-transfer-encoding
 > > field?
 > > 
 > 
 > x-uuencode.
 > 
 > 

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