Inline SPAM warnings {Scanned by HJMS}

[Julian Field]

At 19:19 02/10/2003, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ken Anderson [mailto:ka at PACIFIC.NET]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:24 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Inline SPAM warnings {Scanned by HJMS}
> >
> > Because it's crap. It also has a default setting to hide attachments.
> > You can turn this off by going (in Outlook Express) to Tools, Options,
> > Security tab. This is presumably to protect the user from the
> > fact that
> > it's crap and will likely "run code of attacker's choice" if
> > you were to
> > allow Outlook to display the attachments.
>
>ROTFL. :-)  Yes, I know it's crap.  But that's beside the point.
>
>The question is whether multipart/report is more appropriate as a
>content-type for the message than multipart/digest.
>
> >From RFC 1892
>
>1. The Multipart/Report MIME content-type
>
>The Multipart/Report MIME content-type is a general "family" or
>"container" type for electronic mail reports of any kind. Although
>this memo defines only the use of the Multipart/Report content-type
>with respect to delivery status reports, mail processing programs
>will benefit if a single content-type is used to for all kinds of
>reports.
>
>And from RFC 2046
>
>5.1.5.  Digest Subtype
>
>    ...
>    Note: Though it is possible to specify a Content-Type value for a
>    body part in a digest which is other than "message/rfc822", such as a
>    "text/plain" part containing a description of the material in the
>    digest, actually doing so is undesireble. The "multipart/digest"
>    Content-Type is intended to be used to send collections of messages.
>
>Personally I would consider the messages produced by "attach and deliver" to
>be "reports", not "collections of messages".  The inline part is a "report"
>about an attached message, meaning I would consider this to be a nice
>candidate for changing in a future release of MS.

'tis done.
--
Julian Field
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