[wellylug] Any (linux) solutions for Content-Type: message/partial?

[Jo Booth]

Has any one encountered a message/partial content type in a set of  
emails before?  Google suggests it's an Outlook inspired way of  
splitting up an email message into smaller chunks - but it seems to  
be a real RFCd content type.

I assume I could paste all the parts together in one big mail file,  
and fool the mail application to open it as one... but is there a  
(linux) (server or user) solution for "combining" these kind of  
messages? Is as simple as using pine or something :)

The relevant header... I got 6 ~2 Mb emails.

> MIME-VERSION: 1.0
> Content-Type: message/partial;
> 	id="TAN_U_P<1141600748.00007478F410>";
> 	number=6;
> 	total=6

It suggested the following:

> Partial message, part 3 of 6
> To read this message, select all of the parts of the message and  
> select the Message --> MIME --> Combine Messages menu item.

Needless to say, I don't have that particular menu item.

Nothing major, as I can probably convince the sender to do something  
other than send 12Mb via email. But i'm sure others may have had  
similar issues.

-Jo.

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