Open Source Applications Foundation

[Design] Re: url wrapping in email (Was: High End Email)

Kevin Kautz Sun, 09 Mar 2003 13:19:14 -0500


Not just url wrapping.  Outlook decodes base64 attachments to ASCII text,
then does word wrapping (adds new line breaks), and changes newlines to
CR/LF, etc.  And it even does this if you forward an e-mail with an
attachment, so that the new recipient gets a text/plain attachment rather
than base64.  It's not just mangling MTAs that destroy the world, it's the
mail clients, also.

Needless to say, I beg of you to make sure that Chandler does not destroy
the content of attachments by trying to be too smart about decoding the
common encoding schemes.  Please!

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