Panther, Mail and attachments?

[Arturo Pérez]

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.

[Tom Stiller]

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.

>
> 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?

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Tom Stiller

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[Tom Stiller]

In article <arturo-C30F32.10100424072003@news.comcast.giganews.com>,
Arturo Pérez <arturo@bigchalk.com> wrote:

> 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.

I guess I missed that in the RFCs for mail and attachments; could you
point me to the correct one(s)?

>

> > >
> > > 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"
> [url]http://www.apple.com/switch/questions/online/email.html[/url]
>
> when it is not currently true then there's a problem.

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Tom Stiller

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