[OT] message formats (was: browser footprint)

[Florian Reitmeir]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Scott Bennett wrote:
>     Then you should send your suggestion to Sun Microsystems, Inc., not
>to me, because this particular implementation is the Solaris version.  You
>may also want to suggest something similar to the FreeBSD development team
>for UCBmail (likewise the NetBSD and OpenBSD teams) because that is included
>in the base system just as mailx is with Solaris, and probably also to
>the LINUX developers, though I don't use LINUX and do not know for sure
>that they maintain a version of mailx.  It is indeed a UNIX standard, so
>live with it.

the man-page of mailx on UNIX states:

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mailx supports the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) standard
in two ways: it supports the creation of multipart and text/enriched
messages, and supports the reading of MIME messages by automatically
invoking the metamail(1) program when necessary. 
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and the man-page of metamail:

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Note also that metamail automatically decodes mail that has been encoded
for 7-bit transport if the mail includes a ``Content-Transfer-Encoding''
header as specified by RFC 1341. If data has been encoded via the
"base64" encoding, it will map CRLF to local newlines for textual data,
but not for other data, unless instructed otherwise by a textualnewlines
field in a mailcap entry. 
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so why not just end the discussion, by correctly configuring your
mailclient?

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Florian Reitmeir