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Non-MIME Compliant Clients

Some mail programs are not MIME Compliant.

This means that people using these clients cannot receive MIME mail.

Instead of being able to use your attachment, they are presented with something similar to this:

From jfinney@vt.edu Tue Aug 19 22:01:02 1997
Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu by alsatian.cslab.vt.edu (5.65v3.2/1.1.10.5/18Sep
96-0417PM)
        id AA01327; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:01:02 -0400
Received: from alsatian.cslab.vt.edu (alsatian.cslab.vt.edu [198.82.184.11])
        by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.5/8.8.6) with SMTP id WAA21054
        for ; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:01:01 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <33FA50BF.2C03@vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:04:47 -0400
From: Jeremy Finney 
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; I)
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: jfinney@vt.edu
Subject: mime test

this is a mime message sent to a non mime compliant email client...

see how nasty it is?

Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="resume.doc"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="resume.doc"
0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAADQAAAAAA
AAAAEAAADgAAAAEAAAD+////AAAAAAwAAAD/////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABKZXJlbXkgTi4gRmlubmV5
DWpmaW5uZXlAdnQuZWR1DWh0dHA6Ly93d3cuY3NsYWIudnQuZWR1L35qZmlubmV5DQ1Mb2Nh
bCBBZGRyZXNzCQkJCQkJCQlIb21lIEFkZHJlc3MNMjAwIE9sZCBDZWRhcmZpZWxkIERyaXZl
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Y2NvdW50cw0gICggICAgIGRpYWdub3NlZCB0ZWNobmljYWwgcHJvYmxlbXMNKCAgICAgY29u
ZmlndXJlZCBuZXR3b3JraW5nIGhhcmR3YXJlIGFuZCBzb2Z0d2FyZQ1wcm9ncmFtbWVkIG11
AAACAAAAIAAAAAMAAAAANAAAAwAAADUAAAADAAAAKwAAAAsAAAAAAAAACwAAAAAAAAAMEAAA
AgAAAB4AAAAJAAAASmVyZW15IE4AAwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
--------------5C97D985BAB--

The Moral Is:

Make sure the person you send MIME mail has a MIME Compliant Email Client!