[X4U] Creation/Modified date of Mail attachments

Doug McNutt douglist at macnauchtan.com
Thu Apr 2 04:52:53 PDT 2009


At 06:35 -0500 4/2/09, Craig A. Finseth wrote:
>These properties are part of the file system, not the file itself.
>
>When a file is attached to a mail message, there are no standard ways
>to carry this extra information along.

I believe Mime types AppleDouble and AppleSingle are intended to 
carry metadata like type, creator, and various file time stamps along 
with it.

It was once called the MacBinary format.  But OS neXt may have 
changed all of that.

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