On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:31:39AM -0600, the unit calling itself Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >Why would you want a MIME encoding solution in the default > >installation? I mean, really, what do a large majority of systems need > >MIME for? > > 1) Character set support. These days I suspect the number of Unix users > who can live completely within the US-ASCII glyph set are in the minority. > > 2) PGP/MIME and S/MIME. Even without doing crypto processing, MIME lets > the MUA display only the human readable parts without contortions. > > MIME has been around for 14 years. There's no excuse for any MUA not to > be able to deal with it at least minimally. In the case of /usr/bin/Mail > that means recognizing content types and only displaying text/* sections > when printing to the screen. It doesn't *have* to be complicated.
Lyndon is right... and in recognition of that I understand that the project lead is negotiating with Microsoft (through Warren Buffet) to port Outlook to OpenBSD. Theo will provide more details...
