On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 05:26:23PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Bo Peng wrote:
... > > a) his trusty sendmail 50.2.3 that is sending a trillion email a day, > > b) his MS/OE 10.0 that he paid $1000 for it, or > > c) lyx 1.3.6 that opens an emailed .lyx file with problem. > > You figure the answer for him. > > > > It sounds a bit unfair, but it is indeed lyx's responsibility to fix > > this problem, especially when we do not have control over mail > > servers/clients. > > Several developers have told you that this isn't going to get fixed before > LyX 1.4 is released. They've explained why they think that a file format > change would be a bad idea at this stage. Given that LyX has existed now > for ten years and nobody has ever reported this problem before, I think > it's perfectly reasonable to say, "later". If ever. It's no good idea to start fixing a problem that isn't prpperly understood. We came a lot closer to that, see elsewhere in this thread. It appears to be a mailer problem: an obscure mailer by the name of XCmail. And as Georg Baum noted, even kmail had this at some point. Sendmail, TB and OE all seem innocent, as they would be given their user base. Or don't you think non-LyX-users would also sometimes want to send "dotty" files transparently? As for the Unix mail program, that is a "raw" thingy interacting directly with the mail port that nobody uses as a real mail client. Remember that we have here two different protocols (SMTP and POP3). Start from the standards. - Martin
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