Extra Header field

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thursday 08 July 2004 16:14, Joon Radley wrote:
> Could we add a extra header to the mails containing the kolab format?
>
> This will help me to determine if the message is a kolab format or a normal
> mail without parsing the object twice in multipart mime encoded messages.

It seems that everyone understand that remark,
can someone explain to me why this is the case?
If did not find anything in the format specs that we need to use
multi-part emails. Why not just having the mime-type set 
in the header for the whole email?

> It would look something like this:
> X-KOLAB-TYPE: application/x-vnd.kolab.note
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