Multipart mixed handling

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Simon Tyler

Hi,

Outlook seems to have some limitations on multipart mixed messages. If you
have a message (example below) with 2 parts then only one of them is
displayed, the other is displayed as an attachment. Other clients such as
Thunderbord can cope with this.

Is there an Outlook option that solves this or a message format where both
sections can be displayed at once?

Simon



From: (e-mail address removed)
To: (e-mail address removed)
Subject: Test
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:19:27 +0200
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="==_13514717100007/SIMONT64.simon.dom==_"

This is a MIME-encapsulated message

--==_13514717100007/SIMONT64.simon.dom==_
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Disposition: inline

plain text body


--==_13514717100007/SIMONT64.simon.dom==_
Content-Type: text/html; charset="ascii";
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;

<html>
<body>
<b>Footer</b>

</body>
</html>

--==_13514717100007/SIMONT64.simon.dom==_--
 
B

Brian Tillman

Simon Tyler said:
Outlook seems to have some limitations on multipart mixed messages.
If you have a message (example below) with 2 parts then only one of
them is displayed, the other is displayed as an attachment. Other
clients such as Thunderbord can cope with this.
Click to expand...

What version of Outlook? Outlook 2002/2003 can certainly handle a message
of the format you describe. I though OL 2000 could handle it, too, but it's
bee a while since I used that version.
 
S

Simon Tyler

I have tested in Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003 - neither display the message
correctly. I believe Outlook 2002 also suffers the problem. Outlook 2000 is
too old to matter :)

The problem in that there are TWO inline sections. In the example I gave I
would expect the client to displayL

--start

plain text body

Footer

--end

However Outlook only displays one of these, the other is shown as an
attachment requiring the user to click on it to open it.

Other clients (every one I have tried) display both sections simultaneously.

Simon
 

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