Re: Attaching html documents

Steve_Coletti (bigsteve@dorsai.dorsai.org)
Tue, 13 Aug 1996 18:16:40 -0400

In article <oB+Dy4fXRIHb091yn@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>,
russ.filman@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Russ Filman) wrote:
>Can YARN attach html documents and identify them so, rather than
>as just base64 encoded text, thus allowing recipients to review the
>document with an integrated html document viewer?

Yarn only uses the description of "octet stream" for all attached files.
All files are encoded to base64, regardless of what file/MIME type they
are.
>If so, how is it done?

You would have to go back and edit the completed message, changing the
header to the appropriate MIME type before sending it.

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