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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: kmail fixing MIME messages.
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-09-18 21:03:06
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On Monday 16 September 2002 22:35, Ruben Marrero wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something, but no, the raw message sitting on my
> POP server it's different (on the headers I mentioned of course) from
> the one in the kmail inbox. That message was generated on yet another
> server, so:
>
>
> 	   bad MIME	       bad MIME
> sendmail ------------> qmail ----------------\
>
> 	     SMTP		   POP	     |
>
>
> 	             good MIME 	     	     |
> 	             Inbox <-----Kmail <-----/

O.k., I stand corrected. I didn't knew that KMail fixes MIME messages. 
The golden rule of RFCs is don't produce broken code but accept broken 
code. That's why web browsers manage to display most web pages although 
the code of many web pages is horribly broken. The same way a good mail 
client should try to interpret even broken MIME code correctly. That 
seems to be what KMail does. The fact that you didn't notice the broken 
code your script produced is a small drawback. But the great advantage 
is that KMail probably often correctly displays messages sent with 
broken mail clients. Normal users are not interested in knowing that 
they received broken MIME messages. They are only interested in reading 
the messages they receive.

So in future you should not use KMail to validate MIME messages and you 
should not use web browsers to validate HTML code. In the later case 
use the HTML validator of the w3c and in the former case use a mail 
client which isn't as tolerant as KMail.

For all other use cases you should of course still use KMail. ;-)

Regards,
Ingo

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