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Network Working Group Yvonne Backhans Draft Tina Hekkala Category: Informational Stockholm University/KTH draft-ietf-hekkala-backhans-mhtml February 2004 Expires August 2004 Examining, implementing and testing of RFC2557 (MHTML) Status of this Document This document provides information for the Internet community. This document does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this document is unlimited. Copyright (C) The Internet Society 2004. All Rights Reserved. Abstract In order to send a web page with all or some referenced resources in an e-mail message, the web page and its resources need to be aggregated in a MIME formatted structure. The receiver of such a message need to know how to unpack the structure to display the web page as an email message. The standard RFC2557, MIME Encapsulation of aggregate documents, such as HTML (MHTML) specifies methods for achieving this. The purpose of this document is to examine RFC2557 and implement an e-mail client that sends MHTML using the Content-Location MIME header field, specified in RFC2557, for referencing resources. The e-mail client has been used to send MHTML messages to five commercial e-mail clients to see if they can display such messages. The conclusions drawn from our tests show that all, except one, of the tested e-mail clients can correctly display the simplest form of MHTML messages using Content-Location. This document can be downloaded in plain text, Microsoft Word and PDF formats from http://dsv.su.se/jpalme/ietf/mhtml.html#testprogs. The PDF version is a little more neatly formatted than the plan text version, but the content is the same. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. MHTMLMailer – an implementation of RFC2557 2.1 Overview 2.2 The structure of a MHTML message 2.3 Sending MHTML - requirements in RFC2557 3. Comparison of MHTMLMailer with Microsoft Outlook Exp