begin Gary Turner quotation: > > It has been referenced, but neither discussed nor described. This is > the first definition of what it is that I've seen. All I've known is > that looking at it raw, it is not text that I can read, so out it goes.
Also, it's complicated by the fact that Microsoft registered the MIME-type application/vnd.ms-tnef, and then promptly implemented it as application/ms-tnef. I say pitch it. At least one list I've been on has stripped those attachments, and auto-bounced messages with that Content-Type. Nobody bitched; at least, if they did, we didn't see it. :-) There are a number of folks claiming it's vcard-type information only. This isn't always true, it can come up for more than just that. Microsoft documents it as including drag-and-dropped documents from MAPI-aware applications, and there's no telling what they haven't documented. Bottom line is, it doesn't belong on a Linux support list. Attachments that accomplish something potentially useful and do so in a standard manner accessible cross-platform are one thing; attachments that render messages unreadable on Linux clearly don't belong here, any more than attachments that render messages unreadable on Windows would belong in a Windows support list. -- Shawn McMahon | Information may want to be free, but fiber http://www.eiv.com | optic cable wants to be one million US AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | dollars per mile.
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