Subject: HELP!!! how to check MIME is on the computer system or not ??

From: [email-masked] (Duffy Men)
Date: 19 Jul 1994 12:43:22 GMT

Does anyone know how to check the computer system has MIME running or 
not.  I would like use pine to mail binary files to other person and like 
to check does both side support MIME or not.  Thank you for help.

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 22:49:47 +0800 (TPE)

> to check does both side support MIME or not.  Thank you for help.

	What you really want to know is if the UA (User Agent) the other
person is using is MIME capable.  The only reliable way to determine 
this is to "ask" the intended receipient if their UA is MIME capable.
This is generally a good idea....before you send that 1M byte GIF file
only to find out that the other person can't handle it.

					Ed

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From: [email-masked] (Barry Bouwsma)
Date: 19 Jul 1994 16:56:02 GMT

In a previous article, [email-masked] (Duffy Men) says:

>Does anyone know how to check the [recipient's] computer system has MIME

    The only way, if the other person cannot tell you and you can't
figure it out from mail you receive (note that a header MIME-Version: 1.0
line is not necessarily enough to guarantee MIME capability), is to send
a short MIME message, such as attaching a single-line text file of
This is a test
which would then be sent as a MIME attachment.  If you get a reply asking
"WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT YOU JUST SENT" then your recipient is not using
a MIME mailreader (though there may be one available).  If you receive
mail from the other person which has a Message-ID: header with a Pine
version, then that other person is using Pine.  If, say, you see a header
of X-Mailer: ELM whatever, then maybe it will work, so you have to try
the test suggested above.  If you yourself have received MIME mail, then
of course that sender is MIME-aware.

    You can, of course, suggest the recipient obtain a MIME program, be
it Pine, Pegasus mail, mpack, or metamail, among others.  Pine will add
a few lines to caution the recipient that what follows is a MIME message,
and those lines will not be displayed by a MIME-aware mail program.

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