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Re: [Nmh-workers] rebuilding a borked MIME multipart/ structure?


From: Ken Hornstein
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] rebuilding a borked MIME multipart/ structure?
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:00:25 -0400

>Outlook/Exchange sends a borked MIME structure for meeting invites, that
>is stacked like this:
>
>multipart/alternative
>    text/html
>    text/plain
>    text/calendar

So I think this is with a newer version of Outlook, because I received one
of those this week.  But the ordering was:

    text/plain
    text/html
    text/calendar

>Which of course in any standard-compliant MUA will almost certainly do
>one of the first two and never bother looking at the third one.

However, I actually agree with Robert here.  A standards-compliant
MUA should be able to handle that fine, because like Robert said if
a MUA handles text/calendar it should use that one.  And in my case
the text/plain and text/html just contained the "DESCRIPTION" field
of the text/calendar entry.  This is further confused because exmh
shows the MIME parts in original message order, but nmh reverses
multipart/alternative part ordering (like I said before, I think that is
wrong but not everyone agrees).

--Ken



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