On 08/14/2015 12:15 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
It is possible that the from header is being corrupted due to a MS failure to keep the mail headers standardized to the RFC
Interesting. I've been getting email from people using odd tools on PCs and portables that comes in as html mail with no plain text part, again in violation of the RFCs. They tell me that there is no way their mailer _can_ send plain text; they tell me they've called product support and the product has no way to send plain text. Often the html is as bad if not worse than the Microsoft html mail. I suggest install a con-formant mailer like T'Bird or K-9 or Aquamail, but there is resistance. Why people want broken mailers ... Well, I recall that back when the original MAC came out there was the concern that the ability to alter fonts etc so easily would end up sending "kidnap paste-up" messages. And they did for a while. In my DatabaseOfDotSigQuotes cached from the random quote generator is HTML has followed nature's example... bright, sometimes flashing, colors are a sign of indigestiblility. And yes there are still many sites like that. Oh, and the "unreadable small on black" class as well. Why? Why do people fly in the face of good, well established, well proven communication design principles? Some of these HTML people are fanatics with outrageous and irrational justification for using these flashy messages. it s a religious fervour. *sigh* http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml http://archive.birdhouse.org/etc/evilmail.html http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/a-practical-example-of-why-html... And this is brilliant: http://www.zeldman.com/2007/06/08/e-mail-is-not-a-platform-for-design/ I'd really like to quote it to you, but I'd have to quote its entirety! its so totally apropos! Its pretty easy to globally set plain text in T'Bird. Its also pretty easy to set up exceptions if specific correspondent need that. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org