[feedback-report] MIME question

[Steve Atkins]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 2:54 PM, J.D. Falk wrote:

> Here's where I show that I still don't entirely grok MIME.
>
> Say somebody writes a parser that looks for a message/rfc822 part  
> in a report, and ignores any other MIME types.  If they get an ARF  
> report, will that parser be able to continue to pull out the rfc822  
> part and ignore the new ARF stuff without any new logic?

Yes.

(In the field, though, some scomp parsers don't really handle MIME,  
rather
they get overly chummy with the specific details of the message).

Cheers,
   Steve