From: "Stephen Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Look, Microsoft put out a broken product in the first place, and they're > not going to fix it anytime soon. SINCE it's so damn popular, they feel > they don't need to fix it. > > Microsoft also has a proprietary format for both Outlook Express and > Outlook - which aren't all that compatible on a normal level - like > everyone else's email client programs. > > Besides, why read mail in a mail client that has direct access to your > Windows registry? Or are you tempting fate? > > stephen kuhn - owner
Your points are all true... but beside my point. MS may be a bully, but myself, I wouldn't email people from a mailer that MS's product couldn't understand, if I intended to communicate with people who use MS's product. It doesn't have to be political, just practical. It's concievable that the issue is caused be a flaw in the Sylpheed headers. Or, that Sylpheed is using some brand new mail standard that isn't officially accepted yet. Possibly enabled by a configuration option. Brian Long just pointed out that in MS Outlook (as opposed to Outlook Express) he doesn't get this behavior. I might consider switching. The reason I use Outlook Express on Windows is that none of the other mailers available for Windows work well. They all have greater flaws in how they handle email. I prefer the Express version to the MS Office (Outlook) because I don't need the additional features of the Office version, and the Express version does some things better (exactly what, I can't remember anymore :->). I'm not overly concerned about the security record of Outlook and Outlook Express because I take many precautions and I know what's going on with my system. I.e., I run a good but non-leading virus protection program (less likely to be attacked itself), a good but non-leading firewall program (ditto), a system monitoring program, and install MS's security patches as they come out. Asa
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