[Mailman-Users] Could Mailman cope with extra Mime sections intended for Apple Watches?

Peter Shute pshute at nuw.org.au
Tue May 19 00:51:43 CEST 2015


Thanks to you both for your input on this. It'll be interesting to see whether they persist with this mail format.

Peter Shute 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mailman-Users 
> [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+pshute=nuw.org.au at python.org] 
> On Behalf Of Mark Sapiro
> Sent: Monday, 18 May 2015 9:59 AM
> To: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Could Mailman cope with extra 
> Mime sections intended for Apple Watches?

> This is arguably non-conformant. multipart/alternative parts 
> are supposed to contain sub-parts which are alternative 
> representations of the message arranged in increasing order 
> of complexity, and MUAs are supposed to render the most 
> complex (supposedly closest to the original) that they 
> understand. The summary part is not a more faithful 
> representation of the complete message than even the 
> text/plain part, so it doesn't belong there.


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