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IP: Microsoft breaks Mime specification
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:32:04 -0500
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:25:45 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) From: Frode Greisen <Frode.Greisen () ebone net> To: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu> Dave Using Pine as my mailer I found Microsoft XP outlook users could not read my attachments. We found this was due to a bug in Microsoft's Outlook XP mail user agent. Other non-MS mailers may have seen similar problems. As of this writing, Microsoft has acknowledged the bug but has not added it to the Knowledge Base. We have been told that there will be a post-SP1 hotfix for Outlook XP. This particular bug has bug fix number OfficeQFE:4781. The nature of the bug is that messages with attachments which contain a Content-ID header (which standard Pine attachments do) do not show the attachment indicator (a paperclip) when viewed with Outlook XP. So the user has no indication that the message contains an attachment. Pine has produced an option to remove the content-id header which is part of the Mime specification but which is probably not much used. The problem is that due to the Market share of Microsoft an error in a Microsoft program may force non-Microsoft users to make changes, and possibly also imply a loss of mail functionality. Frode
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