[Email-SIG] Plans for email 6.0
Glenn Linderman
v+python at g.nevcal.com
Tue Apr 7 07:44:22 CEST 2009
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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