> > Is the file (which is indicated with Name, Site parameters) present in the
> > mail ? Who executed ftp command, is man who send the mail or man who received it
> > ?
> It is a set of parameters created by the *sender* of the mail, that tell the
> *recipient* "here - run FTP like *THIS* to get the file".
> We probably would have just put a URL like ftp://ftp-server.whatever.dom/some/path
> instead, but that section of MIME was done in the early 90's and pre-dates
> URLs.
Fixed some time ago. See RFC 2017.
Ned
