I have a hard time believing that Outlook is just being strict on
RFCs, since it's usually M$ that breaks the RFCs in the first place, and
since Outlook seems to be the only mailer having this problem...
Anyways, why do you need a journal and scheduler built into your MUA?
-Dustin
At 05:32 PM 1/8/00 , Dustin Miller wrote:
> > A: Use another mailer.
>
>Show me a Win32 mailer that has integrated contact management, journalling,
>and scheduling, along with a word-based junk mail and adult mail filter,
>with a little bit of programmability tossed in for good measure, and I'm
>sold.
>
>Until then, I would have to guess that the problem isn't actually with
>Outlook itself, but some other step along the way. Sure, Pine displays the
>messages fine -- it's quite lenient when it comes to messaging standards.
>But somewhere out there, someone's sending mail that, either by their own
>MUA or MTA, or the qmail-list's MTA, is not comformant to standards.
>
>Someone has mentioned previously that messages that have too many newlines
>in the header (or something of that nature) will cause Outlook 2000 to barf.
>Well, then -- a message like that violates the RFC's for e-mail, doesn't it?
>Or am I wrong here.
>
>People say the same thing about Netscape / IE when a page doesn't appear
>right. However, usually, it's the fault of the source HTML. A missing
>quote or closing tag bracket may be ignored by one browser, and look really
>odd in another one (one that's more strict).
>
>I guess the bottom line is: When it comes to reading e-mail, Outlook 2000
>(et. al.) are strict in what they're expecting, and messages that violate
>the related standards cause it to choke in some fashion or another.
>
>To help debug this, I have enclosed a message that recently showed up in
>Outlook with no "From:" in the message list, and with all message headers in
>the body of the message (Outlook doesn't display any message headers, its
>only fault, IMHO).
>
>Dustin
>
>
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>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 12:54:14 +0900
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: Kristina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: SMTP error
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>
>I have qmail-smtpd setup using inetd. .
>However when I try to send mail by
>telnet localhost 25. I get the following error:
>
>502 unimplemented (#5.5.1) $B!!(B***ERROR HERE****
>
>Does anyone know what may be causing this?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Kristina
>P.S Sorry about the empty message before!
>
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