On 2017-07-20, Rupert Gallagher <r...@protonmail.com> wrote: > 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). Ch eers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/
1. This is not a business list. 2. I can read the words you write. But it's such a jumbled up mess that it's not worth taking the time to read them. People posting to a technical mailing list, particularly if they're asking for assistance, are expected to follow the standards of that list.
