Hi Ken,

On 4 March 2010 18:12, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:

> But those aren’t the problem messages are they? Didn’t we have messages
> that were encoded, but plain text was just being appended to the end?
>
Negatory. It is Outlook treating a MIME section with an inline
content-disposition as a MIME section with a content-disposition of
attachment.

> Or am I mis-remembering?
>
I think maybe you're thinking of the Outlook 2010 message bloat issue?

Mailman is adding the footers as a text/plain additional MIME section.That
is the right thing to do as it does not know whether the original message is
text/html or text/plain. It would be definitely wrong of it to munt up the
original message to insert the footer (and even more wrong/amazing at the
same time if Outlook could work out what was inserted and turn it into an
attachment).

The official stance is: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814111

As with all crap behaviours that persist from version to version: "This
behaviour is by design."

They need to take the person who said that was by design (probably the same
guy who thought using Word to render HTML was a good idea) out back. Outlook
is due for a good standards-compliant re-think the same way the IE 7/8/9 are
correcting the errors of the past.

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