[Mimedefang] documentation bug/omission for newbies
Bill Cole
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Wed Apr 20 13:22:36 EDT 2016
On 20 Apr 2016, at 11:46, starlight.2016q2 at binnacle.cx wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 19 2016 20:58 -0400 Dianne Skoll dfs at
>> roaringpenguin.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Here it has taken me a couple of days to
>>> get up to speed, but just looking at that Microsoft
>>> picture would have taken me to the same place in
>>> 15 minutes.
>>
>> Oh, you mean like slide #52 of my slide deck?
>
> That's a diagram of the class hierarchy, which I did
> spend time examining. What closed it for me was the
> diagram of a moderately complex MIME message.
You also may find the formal MIME definition helpful, primarily RFCs
2045-2049. There's an example of a complex MIME message in Appendix A of
RFC2049 at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2049#page-15
Learning about Internet mail standards from Microsoft is like learning
about Catholicism from a self-ordained snake-handling Pentecostal
minister speaking in tongues...
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