[imp] trouble with multipart/appledouble viewer

[Ben Poliakoff]

The MIME type multipart/appledouble is just that, multipart.  A mac
client (OSX Mail.app, for instance) understands this mime type and
reassembles the attached file.  

I don't love the apple dual fork model at all, but I have a whole
campus of people who are mac users, whose files are attached as
multipart/appledouble.

Obviously a webmail app has no business attempting to reassemble
anything, but if it could at least display download links to both parts
of the multipart/appledouble attachment then we could just educate our
users to grab the data fork when using webmail.  The current versions of
squirrelmail feature this behavior.  

I'm sure there's a stub for this sort of behavior in the MIME
appledouble viewer that Michael Slusarz introduced (in February of this
year, I think).

I guess I'll take a peak at how squirrelmail deals with
multipart/appledouble stuff....

Ben

* Lord Apollyon <implist at paypc.com> [030905 13:28]:
> 
> > An example of such a MIME file is attached to this message.  Hope this 
> > is helpful!
> 
> I see two attachments, one which has the Macintosh resource-fork/file-type
> excretia, and the other which has the data-fork bearing content which
> comprises "the real thing".
> 
> =Apollyon=
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