[imp] IMP4.0rc3 - CID/MIME Multipart Messages

[Brandon Knitter]

Thanks again for the help. Amazing, once I did it properly it all worked out.

Now I can add "produced well formed mime messages" to my resume! :)

Thanks again Michael and Jan!


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Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at mail.curecanti.org>:

> Quoting Brandon Knitter <knitterb at blandsite.org>:
>
>> Got it all working, thanks for the help!!
>>
>> All of those RFC's don't make it clear that you have to imbed one mime
>> multipart
>> inside another.
>>
>> The interesting thing is that I want to have the inner MIME message
>> there, with
>> images, as well as the base message containing a PDF attachment as well
>> (report
>> suitable for forwarding).  Outlook requires the attachment to be part of the
>> inner multipart/related, and IMP requires it to be in the outer
>> multipart/alternative.
>
> I'm not quite sure what you are going for here.  If I follow you, you want a
> message with 2 parts - the text/html/image part and a PDF file.  The best way
> of doing this, and the way that I think IMP does, would be as follows:
>
> multipart/mixed
>    multipart/alternative
>      text/plain
>      multipart/related
>        text/html
>        image/jpeg
>    application/pdf
>
> Putting the application/pdf in the multipart/related doesn't get you 
> anything.
> I think, if at all possible, you avoid putting anything more into a
> multipart/related than what you absolutely need (i.e. the base part and
> anything linked to in that base part).  it probably isn't technically against
> the RFCs, but makes less practical sense.
>
> michael
>
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