Re: message/partial - is it still a thing?

Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:01:49 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Organization The Eyrie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] writes:

> Does any software out there still do message/partial?  We've discovered
> that both the line-mode nmh package and the exmh GUI claim support but
> are in fact broken.

> Is anything else out there able to do it, or is it time to heave it over
> the side?

Gnus supports both sending and decoding it, and will automatically send
messages as message/partial if the size of the message is above a
configurable threshold.  I've personally disabled that, though, since I've
never had a recipient be able to deal with a message/partial message I
sent them.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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