Date: Wed, 08 Feb 95 16:37:06 CST From: xpat@vm1.spcs.umn.edu I say take the remail stuff out of the header altogether, MIME or not. If by this, you mean to follow more of the model used by remail@extropia.wimsey.com, then I completely agree. What travels in the clear should not *require* any header data. It could even include misleading headers. A remailer should be able to accept mail which is encrypted for it. It can then decode the encrypted part and discard the rest. The format of the decrypted message could be whatever works best for remailers which might or might not have anything at all to do with MIME. OTOH, if you are going to have information in the clear to support naive users or whatever, put the information in the header. The whole purpose of headers is for auxiliary information about the message and its delivery. The body is for the message itself. With MIME's approach of making every piece of information as big and clunky as possible, I'm mildly suprised that it hasn't done away with headers altogether :-) -- Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com> Please do not send electronic junk mail! Lehman Brothers Inc. 3 World Financial Center "The more laws and order are made prominent, the New York, NY 10285-1100 more thieves and robbers there will be." --Lao Tzu