[pmmail-list] PMMail is (will become) OpenSource MALFORMED MESSAGE

[Tim Roberts]

Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:40:17 -0500, Michael Rowe wrote: [no message in
>window]
>
>Mike you might like to investigate why your message was malformed.
>The first message field in your outgoing data stream is empty
>
>Jeffrey Race
>
>
>To: "pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com" 
><pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com>
>Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:40:17 -0500
>Priority: Normal
>X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2717) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600;1)
>In-Reply-To: <E1Aksgz-00042o-00@MailExt1.MH-Hannover.DE>
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: multipart/alternative; 
>boundary="_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_9386264=_=_=_"
>Subject: Re: [pmmail-list] PMMail is (will become) OpenSource
>
> [MESSAGE SHOULD APPEAR HERE--FIELD EMPTY]
>
>--_=_=_=IMA.BOUNDARY.HTML_9386264=_=_=_
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>

No, his message is not malformed.  This is a correctly formatted 
multipart MIME message.  The message body prior to the first MIME 
boundary is ignored by a MIME-aware mailer (such as PMMail).  Many 
mailers will insert something like "If you are reading this, your mail 
program does not understand MIME", but leaving it blank is perfectly valid.

The real meat of the message is in the text/plain part.

-- 
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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