Gilbert Ramirez Jr. wrote: > > As Mike Wood said: > > > > DOES smail support MIME? Thank you for your time. > > To the transport agen (smail, sendmail), the contents of the e-mail message > don't matter. > > It's the user agent (pine, elm, mail, xmail) that should decode the MIME > part of your message. >
Just a guess here -- it may be that the user complaining about *NIX boxes not processing MIME mail correctly is sending eight-bit data. The original SMTP specification allowed only a seven-bit character set, but more recently an extended version called ESMTP has made it possible to negotiate for an eight-bit transfer. Unfortunately not all *NIX systems are running mail transfer agents which support ESMTP; one SMTP transfer agent along the way messes up eight-bit data unrecoverably. (Please -- don't let me restart the flame war on this topic from which I learned so much. It's all been said....) What is the user complaining about MIME problems running as a mail user agent? I suspect that some M$DOS mailers may casually send eight-bit data in violation of the applicable Internet standards. -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux
