Re: The sad state of MIME non-compliance

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 19:00, Bruce Lilly wrote:

> multipart/mixed
>     text/plain (introductory text)
>     multipart/alternative
>        multipart/related
>           text/plain (page 1 text)
>           text/plain (page 2 text)
>        multipart/related
>           application/pdf (page 1)
>           application/pdf (page 2)
> 
> Sadly, many of the MUAs currently on the market fail to display
> such a message properly.  Of course, non-MIME text-only UAs will
> display the message body.  Kmail 1.4.3 seems to do a reasonable
> job of displaying the message correctly.  But Netscape/Mozilla,
> MS Outlook [Express], Eudora, and probably others do not. Most
> of these display only the introductory text.

Just to add a data point: evolution (1.2) does fine, displaying the two
pdf files (and not displaying the two text parts).

cheers
-- vbi

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