Please Ignore: Test text attachment

Chris K. Young cky at pobox.com
Sun Nov 26 22:45:12 PST 2000


Quoted from Dave Looney [27 Nov 2000]:
> Qmail does clearly muck with the boundaries, as it inserts a new one between
> the last mime boundary to insert the list signature.  So qmail seems to be at
> the scene of the crime, and has the means, and opportunity to be responsible for
> not not writing the first boundary in the messages which are sent out.  

Don't be so quick to shoot qmail, lest you end up in DJB's ``hall of
fame''[1]. :-)

Exercise: grep the qmail source for the words ``MIME'', ``boundary'',
and ``multipart''. (It contains the word ``8BITMIME'', which has nothing
to do with MIME.)

	---Chris K.
[1] http://cr.yp.to/qmail/jackson.html
    http://cr.yp.to/qmail/venema.html
    http://cr.yp.to/qmail/warfield.html

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