Andrew Hobson (andrew.hobson@cbeyond.net)
23 Oct 2001 17:39:53 -0400
Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> writes:
> > While that would be nice in theory, I'm afraid I'm looking for a more
> > pragmatic solution.
>
> that's actually the most pragmatic thing I can think of.
> it is within our control and would actually have a useful effect.
Perhaps in some situations, but I'm afraid businesses cannot afford to
turn away email from prospective customers because they deem the
sender to have insufficient technical sophistication.
> any message that contains non-text content that lacks a content-type
> is broken. bouncing broken messages seems like reasonable behavior.
As far as I can tell, OE sends perfectly legal MIME messages. It just
doesn't preserve the content-type; instead it creates its own. While
I disagree strongly with the behavior, I'm unaware of any standard
that prohibits it.
Drew
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