From: patrick@Verity.COM (Patrick Horgan)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 09:15:45 PDT
To: shields@tembel.org
Subject: Re: MIME
Message-ID: <9509201612.AA13835@cantina.verity.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


> : Content-Type: application/pgp
> : Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> : Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
> : Precedence: bulk
> : Content-Length: 1092
> 
> I think that it must be the content-type that is causing problems, as
> the rest of the message is completely standard.  To the people whose
> mailers broke out in hives at that message: Do you get the same behavior
> with any message having an unknown content-type?
> -- 
> Shields.
> 

I've only ever seen the problem with Content-Type: application/pgp using
Sun's mailtool.  I don't know that I've ever gotten mail with unknown 
Content-Type though...wait let me whip some up...

Mailtool assumes anything with a content type is an attachment.  The
type is used as the name of the attachment.  A Content-Type: of 
application/foo or of just foo both yeild an attachment named foo.

Patrick
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