Re: MIME part header (was: SMTP headers)

On Thu September 14 2006 17:03, Philippe de Rochambeau wrote:

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> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test.txt"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Type: Text/Plain
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> Content-Disposition: inline
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Type: Text/Plain
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> *****
> THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC EMAIL.
> ****
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> Do the contents of email attachment always appear in the headers?

No, never (by definition).  The header is a sequence of lines which precedes
body (or MIME-part) content, separated from that content by an empty line.

> Why   
> are the contents of "test.txt" not showing up above the second boundary?

Some possibilities:
1. A bug in the generating program
2. An empty file

[...]
> Why does the last boundary have two dashes at the end?

It is a closing delimiter.  See RFC 2046 section 5.1.1.

> Is this some   
> kind of bug?

No.