Earl Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On February 8, 2002 at 13:59, "Morse, Richard E." wrote: > > > What if the text/plain message is merely a message saying "I'm > > sorry, but this message cannot be displayed in you mailer. The > > actual message has been attached as an HTML message." -- This has > > happened. > > Live with it. > > Seriously, this is extremely bad behavior of the MUA. The sematics of > multipart/alternative is to have each part be reasonable *alternatives* > of each other. With the example you provided, this is not the case. [...]
Indeed. After a moment's more reflection (and reading Earl's mail) I've realized that my reaction to this kind of message isn't just driven by my arrogance and luddism but also by not particularly caring about throwing away stuff generated by stupid, misbehaving software. I realize that, in such a situation, there are lots of caveats which we could discuss to death (the user doesn't realize it, he has an idiotic admin who's set up the Exchange server this way, whatever) and that merely telling the user to switch to a better MUA isn't necessarily all that's needed. On another note, Earl, thanks for MHonArc and for your quick answers on this list. It's a very flexible and useful piece of software :) -- Brilliance and gorgeousness | Mike Acar And we tell ourselves we don't want the treasures | [EMAIL PROTECTED] But we hate the glass anyway |
