Mark Crispin (mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU)
Thu, 15 Mar 2001 01:26:40 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Chris Newman wrote:
> If I could go back in history and redo things, I'd replace BODYSTRUCTURE
> with a headers/headers-not facility that fetches the skeleton of the MIME
> message minus the body parts themselves. Any client which does offline or
> local file work has to have an 822/MIME header parser anyway, so why force
> clients to implement two syntaxes for the same data?
Not all clients do offline or local file work. There are IMAP-only
clients in existance which do not have a clue about how to parse 822 or
MIME.
Unlike 822 or MIME, ENVELOPE and BODYSTRUCTURE actually have a dependable
and structured syntax, that is not subject to the whims of what some email
composer considers esthetically pleasing. BODYSTRUCTURE also contains
information which is not to be found in the MIME headers.
-- Mark --
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