Re: Help with AVG Anti-virus email scanning

bz <bz+csm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

MIME doesn't have an 'attachment' concept. A MIME message is
made up of parts, none of which are 'main', 'primary' or
'attached'.

I suggest you study the SMTP protocol such as RFC2821.
It starts with a 'MAIL FROM:', 'RCPT TO:' and then comes the 'DATA
<CRLF>'

ALL of the message, including the 'header' that you see (except for
the most recent section) are part of the 'DATA' section of the
message.

There are no separate 'attachments'. It is all part of the DATA.

You're missing the context. We were talking about how the messages
have to be formatted, not about how they are transferred.

You missed my point.

The contents of each message is text.
Plain ASCII text.
ALL 'attachments' end up as part of the 'DATA' portion of the message
and are transmitted as plain ASCII text.

If you want to communicate most reliably, you will stick to plain
ASCII text. If you want to communicate most economically, you will
stick to plain ASCII text. If you want to communicate most safely, you
will stick to plain ASCII text.

Any encoding, such as mime and HTML simply add hazards and complexity.
They add 'bling' but they most often prove to be an unnecessary and
unneeded conduit for infection and a reliable sign of spam.

Ah okay, so your reply was actually to something different than what you
quoted. However, the complexity added by MIME is tolerable in my
opinion. Almost every invention makes things more complex.

I admit that HTML does add quite some complexity, which is quite more
than that added by MIME. But other standards are much more complex, and
you really shouldn't always take Microsoft's implementations as
examples.


That is not to say that they are not valuable for languages that can
not be represented in plain ASCII, but there is no reason for me to
need to send or receive such messages.

You don't need MIME for messages in other character sets than ASCII.


Regards,
Ertugrul.


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http://ertes.de/

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