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Programming Internet Email
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Programming Internet Email

by David Wood
August 1999
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
11h 44m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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MIME Message Creation Gotchas

Here are a few of the most common errors made by new implementors:

  • When using MIME boundaries in the body of a message to delimit body parts, remember to prepend them with two hyphens (--) at the start of the line.

  • Remember to append the last MIME boundary marker in a given scope (e.g., message or nested part) with two hyphens (--).

  • Notice that parameters to headers are separated by semicolons (;).

  • Be careful not to use parts of the standard (such as obscure MIME media types) that aren’t supported by the MUAs that you are targeting. Test when in doubt.

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