OE & Multipart MIME

[Alexander Klyubin]

OE does not show textual parts (text/*) of multipart (MIME)
messages inline, as Outlook, Netscape and Mozilla do. Why
can't this be fixed?

Primary concern is that because of this "feature" it is
very hard to read PGP/MIME (RFC 2440 and 3156) signed
e-mails. These e-mails contain two parts: message text
(e.g., text/plain or text/html) and detached signature
(application/pgp-signature). I have provided an example of
such e-mail at the end of this post.

Outlook 2000+, Mozilla and Netscape show textual part
inside the message window, when it is opened, and signature
part as attachment. OE, unfortunately, shows both parts as
attachments. As a result, in order to read received text,
one has to click on first attachment and open it in
Notepad. Replying is even harder, as one has to copy/paste
this text into new e-mail, quote it, etc.

I attach sample PGP/MIME signed e-mail. PGP/MIME signed
message looks like this (only relevant parts and headers
shown):

Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;
protocol="application/pgp-signature";
boundary="------------enigBB68B8B8ECFA0F3F0C84B7F0"

--------------enigBB68B8B8ECFA0F3F0C84B7F0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

.... Text of message here ...

--------------enigBB68B8B8ECFA0F3F0C84B7F0
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

.... Detached signature here ....

--------------enigBB68B8B8ECFA0F3F0C84B7F0--

[Michael Santovec]

That displayed fine in my OE4. Maybe the treatment in OE5 and later changed.

For further help

Use the following newsgroup for questions or problems with OE5
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress
Use the following newsgroup for questions or problems with OE5.5
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress
Use the following newsgroup for questions or problems with OE6
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

You will find out information about issues affecting Outlook Express 5/6 at:
http://chattanooga.net/~scochran/oe5faq.htm
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/6386/IE_ng_notes.htm
http://home.attbi.com/~jimpickering/
http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideOE

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

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