Mail structure (Re: Extra Header field)

[Joon Radley]

Hi David,
> This problem remains. The overall structure would change as 
> soon as one attachment is added, which makes this really not 
> convenient.
> How about having the toplevel multipart/mixed in all cases, 
> even when there's no attachment?

You mean having a single part, multi part ... Hmmmmm :-) 

This should not present a problem.

> > The mixed/alternate is used for when you want the offer the email 
> > client a option of what to display. A non-compliant client will see 
> > that it only understands text/plain and will display this. 
> A compliant 
> > client will display the application/x-vnd.kolab.note.
> 
> Yes. The question was how to also include the attachments in 
> the "for compliant clients only" part, but apparently that's 
> not possible.
> 
> So the next best solution IMHO is to have a *single* mail 
> structure, which makes it easy to add attachments without 
> reshuffling everything around.

The reason I put the groupware message in the mail is based on experience.
Do you know how many times I was asked about the TNEF format? It creates a
lot of confusion not having a text part. Having the text/plain message will
ease the support load. :-)

How about a multipart/mixed? The first part is a text/plain, the second part
is the application/x-vnd.kolab.* and any other parts are attachments.

Best Regards

Joon Radley
Radley Network Technologies CC
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