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Re: [PATCH] sending minimal MIME headers



Hi Thomas!

 On Monday, September 25, 2006 at 11:59:01 +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> some of the "overly verbose" headers were added to counter
> interoperability problems

    Anyone has an example, or pointer to discussion of such problems?

    Note I vaguely seem to recall a contrary example: A "reject
attachments" option of a mailing list robot was wrongly triggered by
Mutt's "Content-Disposition: inline" in plain text monopart mails.


> while minimal headers are nice on a geekish level, I'd rather keep the
> current code -- we know it to work and interoperate well

    Nice, especially given Mutt's target audience. But I agree that good
interop wins.


> Sorry,

    No problem, much thanks for the review.


Bye!    Alain.
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