Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 09:31:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: allen campbell <allenc@verinet.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail's fate (was Re: E-day problems: rtld-elf dlsym() broken?) Message-ID: <19980904093109.L606@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980902095251.A4233@verinet.com>; from allen campbell on Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 09:52:51AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSD.4.00.9809010729170.18315-200000@feldman.dyn.ml.org> <199809020322.WAA03118@detlev.UUCP> <19980902160634.G606@freebie.lemis.com> <xzpww7nrle1.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> <19980902174341.I606@freebie.lemis.com> <19980902095251.A4233@verinet.com>
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On Wednesday, 2 September 1998 at 9:52:51 -0600, allen campbell wrote: >>>> It seems to me that we should agree on some base set of functionality >>>> that a reasonable mailer should support. Most reasonable mailers >>>> support MIME nowadays, but the level of support varies considerably >>>> (that's one of the reasons I moved from elm; when I tried pine, I >>>> didn't have any trouble with MIME, but I just didn't like some of the >>>> things it did). I'll toss in a couple of features for discussion: >>>> >>> (collection of "NO"s omitted). >> >> Why not? Do you enjoy not being able to read messages you receive? >> I'm not saying you should, for example, *send* HTML messages (see >> http://www.lemis.com/email.html for my view on that), but I still >> think it makes sense to be able to handle them when you receive them, >> and I would expect that a modern mailer should be able to handle *all* >> of them. > > HTML reads fine in Mozilla, mutt and many other mailers. The base > mailer has no business with HTML. Its job is to be there by default, > small, fast, standard and operate with as little overhead and > nonsense as possible. Expecting the base mailer to be a full > featured, contemporary program is Microsoft think. You want a > 'better' mailer? Obtain and install one; there are dozens to chose > from. You want to run a reliable, efficient server? Take comfort > in knowing that the base system hasn't been run through with HTML, > Base-64, MIME, Real Audio, Active X, RTF, Postscript, 0.5 GB of > fonts, Web-TV, COM, Cobra, Java, etc, etc... I think you're missing the point (but thanks for changing the subject line...) I'm not advocating sending messagesin HTML or other stuff. I'm just considering what a standard mailer should be able to display, not to send by default. I get lots of messages in strange formats, and it pisses me off to have to go and translate them manually. HTML is not a problem with mutt, as you say, but that doesn't mean I like receiving it: it just means I can read it when I get it, which is more than I can say for the Microsoft Wart attachments I keep getting. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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