[dev] Forwarding of 'multipart/alternative' broken?

Marc Jauvin marc at register4less.com
Thu Sep 18 12:16:03 PDT 2003


Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu> wrote:

> Quoting Marc Jauvin <marc at register4less.com>:
>
> | If I receive an email of type: "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;"
> | with both a 'text/plain' & 'text/html' attachment, and I try to forward
> | that to someone else, I get a REALLY wierd result:
> |
> | - My sent folder contains a message of type "Content-Type:
> | multipart/mixed;"
> | and two attachments (one text/plain, one text/html) which seem valid and
> | can be displayed.
> |
> | - The recipient get an email of type "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;"
> | containing
> | only ONE attachment of type text/plain whose content is cut to maybe 10%
> | of the original attachment. Even the boundary delimiter cannot be found...
>
> Wow, I'm behind on my mail...
>
> Anyway, I can't reproduce this with HEAD.  When I forward a
> multipart/alternative message the text of the text/plain part is inserted
> into the body of the forwarded message, and the text/html part is attached


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