Hi,
> Most 'people' don't tend to be sys admin who have to deal with
> the bounces and other mail problems. Mail admin would normally be
> unix admin who don't have the time to mess with graphical toy email
> clients.
What I was speaking of is the use of Exim as central mailserver.
The bounces will be received by you, the postmaster, but by the
sender as well - mostly a poor Windows user.
And if anybody resends a mail, that's hopefully the sender and
not the postmaster.
> Plain text has worked for a long time, still works and is likely to
> work for a long time to come. Lets not move just because we can.
uuencode has worked for a long time, does still work, and
I tend to prefer it for "Unix to Unix"-sysadm-communication :-).
However, there are good reasons why MIME has become a bit more
popular for attachments than uuencode, and these reasons are
pretty similar to the reasons, why some people seem to want
MIME-stylish bounce mails:
- A well defined structure
- A formal part describing the failure reason, defined by RFCs
- Content saving
The lack of comfort of a very certain MUA is not a good argument
against an option for a MTA.
And the old-stylish bounce message does certainly not work fine
for anything else than plain 7bit ascii messages, and has never
done.
Greetings,
Georg
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