On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:33:58PM -0600, David Champion wrote: > I've used IMAP pickup in the past and it's OK for some IMAP servers. A > year or two ago my employer moved my mailbox to MS Exchange. Exchange > doesn't (necessarily?) hand you the exact e-mail it received. It > parses incoming mail, stores the parsed components, and reconstructs > the message the best it can figure when you pick it up via IMAP or POP. > Along the way it might modify or remove some components for no good > reason; for example, multipart/alternative with text/plan and text/html > invisibly becomes just a text/html message. I've also heard of its > breaking crypto, although I haven't seen that myself for a while.
I haven't had it break crypto, but I'm one of 2 people at the company doing pgp signatures and both of us send *only* text/plain. I have had it give me text/plain only when there was an html part, which normally I wouldn't complain about, but if someone used an html link in their email, I *never* see the link or the url. > So I forward my mail via SMTP away from my employer now. I would love to do this, if for no other reason than I can have better server-side filtering, but I very highly doubt the company would go for it. Otherwise, mutt seems to work just fine with exchange. I do need to set up lbdb to pull from our exchange server at some point, but fortunately I interact with only a very small subset of the company, so my aliases file suffices for this, and if I need to look up someone's address I can always open up OWA. -Jeremy
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