php - What is the MIME type of .eml files in emails

I want to attach a MTA report (not delivered bounce mail) to an email, but what is the correct MIME type?

I fetch the full body of the MTA report with

$body = imap_fetchbody($this->Mailbox->stream, $this->header->uid, '', FT_UID);

But what is the correct MIME type for attached .eml files?

Have tried message/rfc822 but when you open the file in Thunderbird the popup windows is empty. Have also tried text/plain but then the attachment is opended as plain text. I want to open the attachment .eml as an email

When you receive a MTA report (not delivered) the bounce mail is always forwarded as an attachment

I want to attach the full MTA report + forwarded bounce mail to a new mail

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Solution:

Content-Type: application/octet-stream should do the trick.


Our (proprietary) mail client at work just sets Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="xxx.EML" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="xxx.EML", and is able to open the received attachment ???as??? an email again via double click. Since that mime type is anything but specific, I suppose it falls back onto the file type handler registered for the .eml suffix on the OS level.

Answer

Solution:

There is no mime type for it based on list as of 2020-12-23. See:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml

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