On 04/04/2014 02:22 PM, Nathan wrote: > Wow, so it is just me, or rather outlook.com.
That's the problem. outlook.com is one of those sites that doesn't believe in following open standards, and intentionally disobeys RFCs on how to send proper mail. Many technical users prefer native mail clients (such as Thunderbird or mutt) precisely because these open source mail clients care about standards and stand a decent chance at being formatted correctly, unlike web mail providers that provide convenience at the expense of horrible non-compliance. (And while we're at it, most technical lists also frown on top-posting, which is another thing that most web mail sites unfortunately tend to promote, although that is more a matter of preference and not a standardized RFC) > > This is clearly a problem. Who should it be directed to? The problem is on your end, for your choice of mail client. And since your choice of mail client isn't free software, good luck in getting it fixed (it may be a free download, but it does not give you the right to look at the source code implementing it to fix the non-compliance issues, so you are at the mercy of the outlook.com owner ever deciding to become more standards-compliance, which is unlikely). > I think the conversation should be between the email server maintainers > (gnu, outlook). A conversation between server owners won't make a difference. The problem is not in GNU's servers. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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