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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#41974: kmail: support displaying of exchange 6.0 mails
From:       Marc Mutz <mutz () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-04-30 17:33:04
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On Tuesday 30 April 2002 19:18, you wrote:
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> > Outlook can be configured to not produce this crap.
> Hmm, do you know how, so I could get people to send me mails I can read...
<snip>

Sorry, I don't. It should be something like "send mime mails" or so...

> > Also, there is no standard about this.
> > So we won't support it, sorry.
>
> Hmm, but a lot of people use Exchange and why make it hard for kmail users
> to read such mail if it's pretty simple to implement.

If it's really simple, we might even do it. But there are people that assert 
that the more local interoperability you generate, the more global 
interoperability you destroy, because "broken implementations get away with 
it". I tend to agree.

> At least at mplayer we have the philosophy to support as much (even
> non-standard) stuff, to make very powerfull program, but maybe kmail
> philosophy differs and you only want to make 100% standard compliant
> program?

I think we are far away from a standards-compliant KMail. If we are there, we 
might think about non-standard things...

> This is not thought as flame but as general question about kmail
> development-philosophy.
> Btw. IMHO ximian-evolution supports such mails, so you could look at their
> codebase to get a clue how to handle it.

Thanks to the pointer.

Marc

- -- 
Marc Mutz <mutz@kde.org>
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