12 Mar
2017
12 Mar
'17
9:34 p.m.
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017, at 16:04, Noel Chiappa wrote:
I think he means the fact that MIME specifies the type of the main
message body (not just attachments), so you can have a message with *no*
text parts.
From: Doug
McIlroy
Allowing more or less arbitrary attachments was a
real convenience. But
allowing such stuff to serve as the message proper was dubious at
best.
Sorry, I'm not sure I'm completely clear what you mean there? Do you mean
'non-ASCII-text objects were processed by the mail system without being
told
to do so explicitly, by the user'? That, combined with the below, is
indeed a
problem.