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[Brian Pang]

As far as I know, it's arbitrary, however it should be something that is
100% unique as any other matching string will be interpretted as a boundary.
This is why they are usually long and perhaps appear to follow a
convention, such as your example.
But, technically, they don't have to be long or contain N instances of X.
A perfectly legit boundary could be:
boundary="and"
tho the result would not be desirable.



> Hey:
> 
> Admittedly this is off-topic, but I am sending it with PHP, so...:)
> 
> I have never sent multipart email before and am reading up on it, and 
> I see that different portions of messages are separated by something 
> like:
> 
> boundary="============_-1122330894==_ma============"
> 
> 
> I've read several little tutorials on the subject online, but no one 
> has answered what is, for me, a semi-crucial question:  namely, is 
> the string that is used for the boundary arbitrary?  Or must it 
> follow a certain convention?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Marc Antony Vose
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