Re: Plans for email 6.0

On approximately 4/6/2009 10:22 PM, came the following characters from 
the keyboard of Stephen J. Turnbull:
> IMHO, that's a problem with the mail RFCs, not with the email
> package.  Internet messaging is inherently complex because of the
> backward and Microsoft compatibility requirements.

I agree that Internet messaging, particularly some of the character 
encodings, in inherently complex due to backward compatibility requirements.

I'm not surprised that you mention Microsoft issues, as I've found quite 
a few cases of messages from Microsoft email clients that do not conform 
to the RFCs.  Apple Mail violates a number of them, also, especially 
with MIME constructions.  But I've never attempted to track the 
Microsoft violations of the RFCs... do you have or know of a list of such?

-- 
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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