MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 25/11/2012 15:19, BIll Spikowski told the world:
So that Seamonkey users can interact with their colleagues, who often
work in businesses that yoke them to Microsoft, whatever their
personal preferences?
You could hardly find a more devoted and loyal Seamonkey user than me;
but I don't recommend Seamonkey to non-techie friends because of just
this sort of shortcoming.
I keep hoping that someone with the appropriate technical skills will
write an extension that interprets winmail.dat files and Outlook
appointments....
Well, the thing is, TNEF is a bad idea in several levels.
First, it's not just Seamonkey that doesn't understand it; no other
e-mail client (other than Outlook) does it natively, AFAIK. This
includes Blackberries, Iphones and Androids. Who sends an e-mail that
can't be read in a mobile device nowadays?
Then, there are security concerns about TNEF. It's one of those file
formats Microsoft designed in the last century, when security was so
down the list of priorities that it assumed a negative value.
Third, it's unnecessary. Outlook can send reasonably-readable HTML
e-mails. TNEF is a remain of pre-Internet times, when "e-mail" meant
"internal corporate e-mail", and HTML hadn't caught on in the corporate
world yet. "Rich text" format (the option that causes the TNEF option in
most cases) is not even default in Outlook anymore, and hasn't been for
a few versions.
But, if you really want to kowtow to Microsoft proprietary stuff instead
of educating your colleagues, you can always use the LookOut extension.
It's compatible with Thunderbird, it might work with Seamonkey too.
No thankfully it isn't
--
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net mailto:pjones...@comcast.net
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