Re: sending mutlipart/mixed draft file

Olaf Hering via Mutt-dev <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 23, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: 
> 
>> There is no pass-through mode for draft files, because Mutt 
>> can't properly generate or modify the email if it doesn't 
>> understand the parts. 
> 
> Since mutt somehow shows such mail, it seems to have knowledge 
> about how multipart/mixed needs to be handled. You mean mutt 
> needs to rebuild the mime structure on its own, or could it just 
> build it in the same way that it does it with the original mail?

Mutt knows the handling that's necessary for display, but often 
not for composition. This is like many other MUAs: Their syntax 
generators support only what the upper layers need.

Arnt