On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> It would be nice if someone convinced Microsoft et. al. (in the Windows
> E-mail client world) to support the reading and parsing of QSBMF in the
> same way Outlook already does this for Exchange server based E-mail.
I don't think will happen any time soon. Microsoft knows that there is a
lot of money in the server business. They know that many technically
minded people do not like Microsoft.
So, they go to some effort to make their client software make their own
proprietary, expensive, low-performance servers look more attractive to
the end user using Microsoft software than any non-Microsoft product that
performs the same functions.
They figure, if enough end-users demand Microsoft servers so "They can get
more helpful bounce messages in Exchange" or what-not, that some shops
will make the migration.
Look at Front Page extensions.
Not that this is any threat to Qmail. As long as end-users subscribe to
mailing lists on Egroups [1], people can and will complain if a Microsoft
client can't handle a Qmail server correctly.
- Sam
[1] I believe Egroups is one of the most visible Qmail installations out
there.
