[OT] Albrecht Dreß e-mails get filtered on the YDL list (was RE: [IMPORTANT] SOUND!!!!)

[Clinton MacDonald]

Mr. Dreß:

Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Am 13.01.05 01:22 schrieb(en) Longman, Bill:
>> My MUA, Outlook, sees it, basically, as you pointed out,
>> Albrecht, in your previous post: multipart/signed etc. I
>> wonder if there's a way to get mailman to handle the
>> signed messages better.
> 
> The treatment of multipart/signed messages by mailman as
> it is now is *absolutely* correct.
> [...]
> I guess the problem is that Outlook doesn't really
> understand what these parts are about.
> [...]
> So I think you have two choices: call Microsnot and
> complain about this Outlook bug, or switch to a better MUA.

Though I may be accused of contributing to what is now an off-topic 
thread, I must agree with Mr. Dreß here. Microsoft (spit) Outlook is a 
very broken e-mail client ("MUA"?) that makes things difficult for the 
rest of us. My own complaints have to do with its handling of URLs.

[1] The Internet standard for delimiting an URI is to use left and right 
angle brackets:

<http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter04/PATTwomb.html>

Never mind that most people don't actually do this, it is the standard. 
At the very least, it should work for multiline URIs. Well it works in 
Eudora, Apple's Mail.app, (usually) in Thunderbird, etc. It does not 
work in Outlook. Therefore, if I want to send a URL to an interesting 
link to people a mix of people who use Outlook and people who use a 
*real* e-mail program, I have to paste in the URL twice, both with and 
without the brackets. Grrr.

[1a] A corollary to this: the "mailto:" URI standard is the form 
<mailto:billg at microsoft.com>. This breaks completely in Outlook, and I 
must paste in all e-mail addresses twice.

Best wishes,
Clint
(who notes that Microsoft (spit) Entourage for the Mac gets it right)

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT net>