[pmmail-list] Mutiple Attachments

[Lueko Willms]

On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 15:49:40 +0200 (CED), S.Stroh aka 'Yellow' wrote:

> if i recive an Message with more than one Attachment then PMMail
> dosent display the Filenames. It displayed for each Attachment
> Unnamed Attachment X.ATT (X is the Number of the Attachment).

   This is generally not true but probably caused by the errors in
the sender's message: 

> 
> Looking at the MailHeader ther is set:
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
> boundary="_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.GJ5L0G138764=_=_=_"
> 
> and both Attachments has thies Header:
> --_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.GJ5L0G138764=_=_=_
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; charset=iso-8859-1
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="pmcdrec.txt"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

   As you can see, the tag "Content-Type:" is twice in there. This
might cause PMMail to discard the second line and thus to overlook
the "name=" tag. 

   I guess that the parameter "name=diesunddas.txt" should be added
to the previous line (sure, I'm no expert on MIME and have not
verified this in the RFCs). 

   OTOH, while one should be very strict with a standard on the
sending side, on the receiving side, one should be very permissive
with the standards and allow for a lot of strange behaviour. 

Yours, 
Lüko Willms 
Frankfurt/Main 
/ Lueko.Willms@T-Online.de 

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