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From: jlowry@bbn.COM (John Lowry)
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Subject: UA's and Forwarded BodyParts
Keywords: X400 Mail
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Date: 28 Aug 90 18:00:50 GMT
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The implementation of '84 X400 I have does not support Forwarded IPM's.
I would like to know if any implementations that support FIPM's and in
anticipation of positive responses, have some questions:

    1) Is there a limit (standard or practical) on the level of nesting
       that can appear within FIPM's ?

    2) Is there a common or accepted solution as to how a user indicates
       to the UA that "X" is to be forwarded, or that "Y" is to be a FIPM
       within "X" which is to be a FIPM in the message I am preparing for
       submission ?  Is there an assumption that "X" and "Y" are already
       encoded ?  How does one specify (or save) the delivery Time and
       the DeliveryInformation to the UA ?

    3) Upon delivery, is there a common or accepted solution for the UA to
       notify the reader that "Y" is a FIPM of "X" which is a FIPM of the
       message just received ?  How does the UA inform the reader of the
       delivery Time and DeliveryInformation of each FIPM ?

    Does anyone have an example of 2) or 3) which they would be so kind
    as to describe to me ?

John Lowry