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Carven
Carven

Reputation: 15660

Command to get the content-type of one part of the body in IMAP

In IMAP4, how can I check the content-type of one part of a body? Or more generally, to get the headers of a body part. ie, the headers of an attachment, headers of a html or text content, etc, which are all some parts of the the whole message body. I tried something like that:

. fetch 3709 (flags body.peek[3][header.fields (content-type)])
. BAD Command Argument Error. 11

My intention was to get the content-type of the body's part 3 so that I can know how to read it. Like whether if the part is a plain text or html or an attachment. My worry is that I don't know if the part number for one message is always the same for the other; eg, the body part 2 may be a html content for message #3700 but the body part 2 may be an attachment for message #3701.

But the above command returned as error. How should I phrase my command on telnet to get the content-type of one part of the body?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1757

Answers (1)

Ivar
Ivar

Reputation: 501

You have syntax error per RFC https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3501#section-6.4.5

body.peek[3][header.fields (content-type)] should be body.peek[3.header.fields (content-type)])

Upvotes: -2

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