[Imap-use] Binary data in IMAP

Arnt Gulbrandsen arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no
Thu May 19 02:24:02 PDT 2005


Dave Cridland writes:
> However, take note that only attachments may be decoded in this way - 
> so while you might find it useful to obtain the message itself (the 
> TEXT part, for instance),

(TEXT isn't a part, it's the entire message sans header.)

> you can't - only section-part from RFC3501's ABNF can be used.

You can fetch text/plain parts, and you can fetch parts independent of 
their content-disposition. So, AFAICT, there's nothing you cannot 
fetch.

Arnt


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