[gopher] Draft RFC

Kacper Gutowski mwgamera at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 20:11:58 UTC 2012


On 2012-06-21 20:08:10, Kim Holviala wrote:
> On 21.6.2012 19:56, Nick Matavka wrote:
> 
> >>Just a quick comment; the filetype for Mime was a capital "M", not "m".>
> >
> >Kim, 'm' is not for MIME types, but for e-mail inbox files (for 'm'ail)
> 
> And the most commonly used format for emails is? Email and MIME are
> the same thing, the format is exactly the same and interchangeable.

I don't know how actual implementations handle this,
but since 'm' means mail (mbox?) and 'M' mean MIME,
I'd expect a single MIME message under 'M' and possibly
multiple mails (not necessarily even being correct MIME
messages as email predates MIME) in mbox format.

K.



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