From: Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net>
Subject: Re: Content-type: text/plain
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:54:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sdbrwo6v8t.fsf@wanderer.hardakers.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k7bcfh21.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 24 Jun 2003 02:35:50 +0200")
>>>>> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 02:35:50 +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@quimbies.gnus.org> said:
Lars> The only problem is that Microsoft Outlook doesn't understand
Lars> MIME standards, so it gets all confused by parts that don't have
Lars> a Content-Type header.
Lars> So the question is: Insert or not? Do or dump?
sigh... I'd say you need to be helpful to broken mailers, as much as
it seems wrong to. The goal of a mail reader should be to increase
interoperability as much as possible, even if that means more pain for
yourself.
I'd suspect that there are also many more outlook users than there are
non-mime-understanding mail readers, so optimizing for the later seems
a bit odd considering its one simple and easily skippable line for the
human eyes.
--
"In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap,
and much more difficult to find." -- Terry Pratchett
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-24 2:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-24 0:35 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-06-24 2:54 ` Wes Hardaker [this message]
2003-06-24 13:08 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-10-17 23:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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