Microsoft Mail User Agents

Posted about 1 year ago

An excerpt from Mailing List Etiquette on FreeBSD.

Please use a standards-compliant Mail User Agent (MUA). A lot of badly formatted messages come from bad mailers or badly configured mailers. The following mailers are known to send out badly formatted messages without you finding out about them:

• * cc:Mail
• * Eudora� (older versions)
• * exmh
• * Microsoft� Exchange
• * Microsoft Internet Mail
• * Microsoft Outlook�
• * Netscape� (older versions)

As you can see, the mailers in the Microsoft world are frequent offenders. If at all possible, use a UNIX� mailer. If you must use a mailer under Microsoft environments, make sure it is set up correctly. Try not to use MIME: a lot of people use mailers which do not get on very well with MIME.

I just find this hilarious. I mean what exactly defines user friendly? Software that has shiny buttons or that formats its data in a way that complies with standards and is compatible with other users *standard compliant* software?!

Sean