If you make business in Europe, or with people in Europe, then you know about legal compliance with the Commision's standards, and their pdf and p7m signed attachments. Similar standards exist in other countries, and they use mime parts. If your email client cannot read mime parts, you are out of business. If your email server rejects mime messages, you are out of business. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Paul de Weerd <we...@weirdnet.nl> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 02:46:02AM -0400, Rupert Gallagher wrote: | Out of > curiosity, I just checked what all the fuss is about. It turns out that > someone reads mail with a non-RFC compliant client, and thus fails to read > mime parts. Screw it, update your client. | The other problem seemed to be > with the list archive. It turns out that at least one archive has no problem > at all (*). If other archives have mime problems, they can update themselves > or just delete the mail. All of this while large parts of the world consider > those sending such mails to be spam (after spammers abused trick this to > evade anti-spam solutions), never to deliver them. Your base64-encoded mime > parts are braindead, but nobody is really worried: those e-mails will simply > be ignored by those that might otherwise have had useful replies. Just > because something is a standard, doesn't mean everybody should do it. There > are (very many) harmful standards (caused in large part by a lack of > ax-murderers, I hear). Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- > >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ > +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] > http://www.weirdnet.nl/
