Ertugrul =?UTF-8?B?U8O2eWxlbWV6?= <es@ertes.de> wrote in news:fv9t16$om0$00$1
@news.t-online.com:

> MIME doesn't have an 'attachment' concept. A MIME message is made up of
> parts, none of which are 'main', 'primary' or 'attached'.

I suggest you study the SMTP protocol such as RFC2821.
It starts with a 'MAIL FROM:', 'RCPT TO:' and then comes the 'DATA <CRLF>'

ALL of the message, including the 'header' that you see (except for the most
recent section) are part of the
'DATA' section of the message.

There are no separate 'attachments'. It is all part of the DATA.

caviat: some mail gateways limit the size of a single message to about 25
k bytes. This means that larger messages are actually transmitted as a
string of messages that get reassembled by the receiving SMTP mail server.
It also means that that 1 MB HTML formatted message with graphics gets
encoded [8 bit binary takes 2 bytes] and then broken up into about 80
separate e-mail messages.

--
bz

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.

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