Yes, the problem seems to be in the pane viewing. So, if using PGP-mime is a
standard that is well-recognized and MS Outlook doesn't handle it properly,
then it is an MS Outlook bug.
But I'm really surprised that I haven't encountered this problem before? Are
Chris and Mark the only folks out there using PGP? I subscribe to a lot of
mailing lists, which get shunted off to various folders, so I recieve mail
from literally thousands of users.
I haven't encountered the problem before so if it is strictly a MS Outlook
inability to understand PGP-mime properly I would expect to see the problem
in some significant percentage of emails I recieve, say 10%.
But this is a very small percentage, I find it hard to believe that
something as famous as PGP would be so underrepresented in all these mailing
lists.
Alex Miller
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul J. Schinder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 11:05 AM
> To: Alex Miller
> Cc: List-QMAIL
> Subject: Re: Tower of Babel problem
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 10:57:50AM -0400, Alex Miller wrote:
> } It looks like there is a bug in MS Outlook, where it is having trouble
> } displaying emails with certain header information. True enough,
> Microsoft is
> } evil incarnate but it does read 99.99% of email fairly well. I
> checked and
> } the Netscape client on my LINUX box reads the same emails just fine.
> }
> } The emails Outlook is having trouble with have all been sent to
> this list.
> } All of the emails sent from Chris Garrigues and one email from
> Mark Drummond
> } (the one titled Re: qmail + Maildir + Procmail) have this problem.
> }
> } My concern is that if there is something slightly dialectical
> about Chris's
> } and Mark's QMAIL setup, MS Outlook recipients will have trouble
> with those
> } emails.
> }
> } Since I am setting up QMail as part of a not-for-profit ISP service that
> } provides internet services to participating not-for-profits, I would not
> } want my email system to send out email which is a dialect of
> normal email
> } which MS Outlook (and potentially other evil clients) can't handle.
> }
> } I think it's worth looking into what is different about these
> emails and how
> } qmail is causing that difference.
>
> To hazard a guess, if I remember their messages in mutt this morning
> and yesterday it's because both of them use PGP-MIME. Microsoft
> simply doesn't do standards very well. You can't ask them not to use
> PGP-MIME just because Microsoft crapware can't handle it.
>
> }
> } Alex Miller
> }
>
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> --------
> Paul J. Schinder
> NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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