This needs to be given some attention in the IETF...\Stef
>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:25:45 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) >From: Frode Greisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Dave > >Using Pine as my mailer I found Microsoft XP outlook users could not read >my attachments. We found this was due to a bug in Microsoft's Outlook XP >mail user agent. Other non-MS mailers may have seen similar problems. > >As of this writing, Microsoft has acknowledged the bug but has not added >it to the Knowledge Base. We have been told that there will be a >post-SP1 hotfix for Outlook XP. This particular bug has bug fix number >OfficeQFE:4781. The nature of the bug is that messages with attachments >which contain a Content-ID header (which standard Pine attachments do) >do not show the attachment indicator (a paperclip) when viewed with >Outlook XP. So the user has no indication that the message contains an >attachment. > >Pine has produced an option to remove the content-id header which is >part of the Mime specification but which is probably not much used. > >The problem is that due to the Market share of Microsoft an error in a >Microsoft program may force non-Microsoft users to make changes, and >possibly also imply a loss of mail functionality. > >Frode For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
