[mew-int 01148] Re: Mew version 3.1rc1: Attachments

Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 ) kazu at example.com
Wed Nov 6 15:19:39 JST 2002


From: Christophe TROESTLER <debian00 at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 01144] Mew version 3.1rc1: Attachments

> It is due to a lack of newline before the last boundary (which is then
> at the end of the last line of the attachment).  This seems to happen
> when the file type is not recognized like for example *.dvi (please
> add it if possible) and *.gnumeric.  To demonstrate this, I attached 
> a file Hello.dvi.

The MIME spec says that newline is necessary before the last boundary.
Without this, multipart cannot be analyzed by theory. Of course, Mew
cannot analyze such a broken message. 

Note that Mew never ever produces such a broken message.

--Kazu



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