Does anyone out there playing with Panther know if it has fixed the
oddities with attachments from Mail.
What I'm most concerned about is whether it makes emailing Word
documents (with resource forks) to Outlook any more intuitive.
IIRC the other oddity states that attachments have to be the last
thing in an email or Outlook doesn't process it correctly.
In article
<tomstiller-11BD5B.08190624072003@news.comcast.giganews.com>,
Tom Stiller <tomstiller@comcast.net> wrote:
You're response seems a bit belligerent to me. I will assume that
the combative tone is accidental.
In article <arturo-DD6138.20260023072003@news.comcast.giganews.com>,
Arturo Pérez <arturo@bigchalk.com> wrote:
Does anyone out there playing with Panther know if it has fixed the oddities with attachments from Mail.
What I'm most concerned about is whether it makes emailing Word
documents (with resource forks) to Outlook any more intuitive.
I don't know of any mail client that has special rules for the
recipient's mail client.
This has nothing to do with having special rules for mail readers.
It has everything to do with the supposed seamless interoperability
of Mac OS X with the Windows world. The above was just an example
but I'm sure that the way that Mail formulates attachments causes
problems with other mail readers as well.
IIRC the other oddity states that attachments have to be the last
thing in an email or Outlook doesn't process it correctly.
Why is that a Mail.app problem?
It is Mail's problem because, as far as I can tell, Mail does it
differently then every other email system. In my experience, its
methodology does not work with Exchange, Notes and various Unix
email clients. It's the odd man out.
Since email is the killer app (or so they say) and Apple advertises
"mail passes smoothly from Mac to PC and back again" http://www.apple.com/switch/questions/online/email.html
when it is not currently true then there's a problem.
In article <20030724202611.07244.00000349@mb-m12.aol.com>,
tacitr@aol.com (Tacit) wrote:
Multipart MIME is such a wonderful thing.
Mail.app uses AppleDouble encoding, which is...um...multipart MIME.
Sure, I know that. But if you go over to macintouch
http://www.macintouch.com/mail.app01.html
You'll find that a host of people are having problems with exactly
how Mail uses MIME. I'm not claiming it is a bug. All I want to
know is whether the situation gets better with Panther's Mail since
Apple seems to have put a great deal of work into it.
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