[Mimedefang] Re: users seeing strange text attachments??

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Joseph Brennan wrote:

> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1079446477-2144-42"
> ...but it actually only had one part, which was text/plain.

MIMEDefang does that.

> Whenever
> data is out of standard like this, you can get undefined results, like
> a message looking different when seen with different mail programs.

Is it out of standard?

According to RFC 1341:

"The use of the multipart Content-Type with only a single body part may
 be useful in certain contexts, and is explicitly permitted."

So MIMEDefang is RFC-compliant, as far as I can tell.

Regards,

David.