Keith Moore (moore@cs.utk.edu)
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:50:23 -0400
> 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.
if you can't read/present a message, it seems far better to bounce it back
to the sender (someone who might be able to solve the problem - or at
least needs to know about it) than to pretend that you've received it.
> > 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.
mistyping a message is not perfectly legal in MIME. if a bodypart
doesn't conform to the type definition for that body part, it's mislabelled.
Keith
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