Message Text

For outbound messages in MIME mode, the content-type depends on whether there are attachments and what the message text looks like. If there are attachments, the Content-type is multipart/mixed; the message text and each attachment become a separate part of the message content, each with its own content-type. If there are no attachments, the content-type of the message is text/plain and there is only one part.

The message text is not line-wrapped unless some line exceeds 140 characters in length. If one does, the entire text is wrapped to 76 columns and the quoted-printable encoding is used to preserve line breaks. The content-type depends on what characters are found in the message text, as follows:

For inbound MIME messages, if the first message content part has Content-type: text/* (that is, any text type) and its character set is recognized, it is mapped to PR_BODY. A first message content part not meeting this criterion becomes an attachment. Any subsequent parts also become attachments.

In uuencode mode, message text in outbound messages is line-wrapped to 78 columns, as for MS Mail 3.x. The content-type is "text/plain." To preserve the original message's paragraph breaks under these circumstances, observe the following conventions in the wrapped text. There are three possible reasons for ending a line of text, each with its own character sequence: