Re: OPES and Email

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Matti Aarnio wrote:
> In my first quick scan (oh my.. 13 000 plus IDs in IETF archive!
> mere 1932 IDs after cleaning all expired/completed/etc...)
> I spotted example SMTP session that violates a bunch of protocol
> syntax details - and we have just had a discussion about the myriad
> ways that people violate them.. ....

Yes, those are already being fixed.

> About the idea of "put attachments in web-server" -- one thing that I
> hate profoundly is MS Exchange's habit of converting incoming
> TEXT/PLAIN email into TEXT/HTML in some obscure situations. Sender
> didn't send HTML, and recipient (= me) doesn't want HTML. Why that
> beast must do such stupidity ?
> 
> This idea of converting message so that the attachment can be 
> downloaded from elsewere (other than over IMAP) sounds like its
> writers are thinking that everybody will move to webmail and HTML.
> 
> All in all, as a user I am very much opposed to ideas where my emails
> encounter any other conversions, than those of transfer encoding.

Thanks for your comments and taking the time to review the document.

	Tony Hansen
	[email protected]
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