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Colin Leroy
Hi,
On my free time I help developing an open-source MUA, Sylpheed-Claws.
Since I began working on it (about three years ago), we had
interoperability problems with Outlook Express (and Outlook). The main
problems being:
a) Outlook Express doesn't understand the PGP/Mime standard, which
consists of a multipart MIME message, one part being the actual mail
and the other containing the signature. This format is documented and
standardized by the RFC 3156 (4 years old), which updates rfc 2015
(9 years old).
b) Outlook Express doesn't understand the standard way of encoding
structured header fields, such as MIME attachments filenames (MIME
parameters, in a more general way). This standard is defined by RFC
2231 (8 years old), whereas Outlook Express decodes and encodes
attached filenames using the format described in RFC 2047.
Unfortunately, the RFC 2047 applies to unstructured headers fields,
like Subject or To.
References:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3156.html
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2231.html
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html
I guess my question is: Does Microsoft plan on supporting these RFCs
one day? Any ETA by luck?
Thanks,
On my free time I help developing an open-source MUA, Sylpheed-Claws.
Since I began working on it (about three years ago), we had
interoperability problems with Outlook Express (and Outlook). The main
problems being:
a) Outlook Express doesn't understand the PGP/Mime standard, which
consists of a multipart MIME message, one part being the actual mail
and the other containing the signature. This format is documented and
standardized by the RFC 3156 (4 years old), which updates rfc 2015
(9 years old).
b) Outlook Express doesn't understand the standard way of encoding
structured header fields, such as MIME attachments filenames (MIME
parameters, in a more general way). This standard is defined by RFC
2231 (8 years old), whereas Outlook Express decodes and encodes
attached filenames using the format described in RFC 2047.
Unfortunately, the RFC 2047 applies to unstructured headers fields,
like Subject or To.
References:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3156.html
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2231.html
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html
I guess my question is: Does Microsoft plan on supporting these RFCs
one day? Any ETA by luck?
Thanks,