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From: hansen@pegasus.att.com (Tony L. Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media
Subject: Re: Multiple Binary Attachments And RFC-822 Mail
Summary: AT&T Mail has done multiple attachments for years
Keywords: binary, attachments
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.053900.22109@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 29 Mar 91 05:39:00 GMT
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< Actually, there have been DOZENS of prototypes.  A lot of the people
< and organizations who have built such prototypes are now trying, via
< the IETF-SMTP mailing list, to converge on a standard way of
< representing multiple body parts.  We're currently working towards a
< third version of a draft RFC, which will (with luck) be posted to the
< list next week.

One note: AT&T Mail has had a working "standard" way of representing multiple
body parts for quite a few years. Their mail system has also been handling
binary messages since day 2. Plus, their standard method of representing the
presence of multiple parts is mostly upwardly compatible with rfc 822.

					Tony Hansen
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