[OT] Multi-part text messages on the list are a serious pain.

Darius squeakuser at inglang.com
Fri Mar 14 20:07:20 UTC 2003


Andy,

FYI.
I'm on Outlook 2002 (Office XP) and I have no trobule reading this list.

Cheers,
Darius

.... Pardon the psuedo-rant......

A number/several people have started sending to this list
using e-mail clients that send messages as multi-part mime 
messages. (Looks like from something called Ximian or
similar fancy e-mail clients, some with pgp...)

While I can understand using mime if you are sending an 
attachment (image, jpg, changeset, etc) a large portion
of these messages are JUST text (Or in html, but that is a 
completely different e-mail sin) and don't need to be sent 
this way.

I haven't seen any complaints about this so I'm assuming I'm
the only person suffering from a "modern" e-mail client
(Outlook 2K, and no I don't want to change to something 
else... thanks for asking. Maybe, if Celeste did IMAP so I
could get to the Exchange server my e-mail goes to I might 
switch...) 

that treats ALL multi-part messages as blank messages with text 
attachments I have to click several times in its' benighted 
interface to get to..... only to find it's just plain text.

So... does anyone using Outlook know how to configure it to
read messages in a clean fashion when the attachements aren't 
REALLY attachments ? Without subjecting me to the risk of
some virus Outlook can be affected by ?

Thanks :-).

 
-Andy-



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