Iride
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Iride is (or will be) an implementation of a MIME user agent on 
the Apple Macintosh computer.
Its was developed as part of a project of the GNBTS - Gruppo Nazionale Bioingegneria sezione di Trieste, for the integration of multimedia mail with the hospital data storing facilities, in particular for the transfer of bioimages.

This is a far from a complete MIME implementation, but I think 
it is quite usable.

To use it you need:
 - Macintosh with MacTCP 1.1 or better installed
 - 32 bit ColorQuickDraw if you want to use images
 - audio input device if you want to create audio messages
 - connection to a SMTP mail relay
 - connection to a POP3 server

MIME types supported:

text/plain      charset=US-ASCII only
text/richtext   (there is not a composing tool for richtext yet)

audio/basic
audio/X-macaudio generated sending a NOT sampled audio pasted in

image/GIF
image/X-macPICT  generated when color QuickDraw is missing only

multipart/mixed         each part is shown in a different window
                        MUST change this
multipart/parallel     
multipart/alternative   handled as multipart/mixed
                        MUST change this

Please address any comment or suggestion to:

steindle@gnbts.univ.trieste.it