Subject: When will pine be truly MIME-compliant?

From: Jan Snellman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 15:48:34 +0200 (MET DST)

It seems that MIME does not really understand the message/external-body 
subtype: viewing the FAQ-pointer in the comp.mail.mime newsgroup, I could 
not automatically retrieve the FAQs with ftp. GNUS with metamail support 
handles this correctly.

Furthermore, it would be very nice if RFC 1522, that allows ISOLATIN 
characters in message headers, would be implemented. I get a lot of 
messages from Eudora users; they look kind of strange with the raw Q 
encoding. 

Jan Snellman         : "Whenever you find that you are on the side of the 
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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 01:42:35 -0800 (GMT)

Hello Jan,

	IMHO, pine *is* truly and fully compliant with the MIME standards.

	Compliance means that you implement all of the "required" aspects
of the standard.  It also means that your software shouldn't "break"
when it encounters aspects that it does not support.  

	There plans to support 1522 and other features of MIME.  And
when support is added for these features I fully expect that they will
comply with the standard.

	Out of curiosity...can you tell us what UA implements "all"
of the aspects of all of the RFCs related to MIME?

					Ed

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 09:17:25 -0700 (PDT)

Pine does meet the minimal conformance requirements of RFC1521.  We have not
yet completely implemented some of the optional subtypes, like
message/external-body, but we are working on them.  We also intend to support
RFC1522 in a future release....

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