Re: Mail.app idiocy [was Re: UNIX kernel notification system]

[Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 04:02:16PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> One of my correspondents at work has exactly this problem when I send
> nicely formatted text.
> 
> > This is, admittedly, less evil than the Android mail client's
> > unalterable behavior of base64-encoding *all* message data, even that
> > which would be perfectly readable as plain ASCII text.
> 
> I don't think so.  That at least is correctly labeled and thus _can_ be
> mechanically corrected for, by those for whom it needs correction.
> This is a case of Mail.app suckering its users into sending out
> mislabeled mail without even telling them it's doing so.

The most evil mail I get is mail that is formatted with HTML but without any
headers nor MIME header making it nearly impossible to just auto format it
without resorting to hacks like piping it to say lynx....

Reinoud