Extra Header field

[David Faure]

On Monday 12 July 2004 16:35, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> 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?

Because we want to be able to add attachments (e.g. the photo for a contact).

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