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shk
Asked: 2011-01-23 05:12:42 +0800 CST

Maildir and mail attachments

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If the mail receive with attachments and mail storage in the server - Maildir. How attachment set in Maildir format?

For example: I user maildir for incoming message in my server. I got 1 message with attachment, I set this message in /user/new dir, where must i set attachment for this message?

Thank you.

email attachment maildir

1 Answers

  1. Is your question about how the attachment is encoded in the mail stored in the Maildir directory ? If yes, have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME (and also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64). Mail body + attachment(s) are in the same file.

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