Re: The issue of mime parsing

Rickard Armiento <[email protected]>:

> Stefan Karrmann:
>> The data of an ISP-IM2000 for a message should be similar to
>> [...some field details removed...]
>> body_size                     (mandatory, unlimited)
>> body                          (mandatory)
>> [...some field details removed...]
>
> I guess you mean for the body to use MIME format to allow multipart
> messages. This thread was started as I suggested there are
> advantages to always handle body parts as external binary
> files. (The primary advantage being simplifed handling of partial
> message download for clients on low bandwith connections.) Are there
> reasons to why you would like to avoid that approach?

i think stefan leans toward letting MIME be a separate issue.  he's
talking about im2000 only headers here, with MIME beeing application
or user data.

  clemens