Re: [Exim] many questions

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Author: Dave C.
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To: Jeffrey Goldberg
CC: Dan Lowe, Philip Hazel, Hana Breyer Priselac, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] many questions
Actually, I beleive some of the latest Microsoft clients may actually
use correct MIME-types (I could be wrong though).

This is a dodge by microsoft so that proper mime tools STILL can't
recognize their files, even when it is a standard format rather than
some proprietary MS stuff. The use the 'extension' to determine what
the file is. Of course it works in an MS-to-MS environment, so if you
can't interpret in in your non-MS product, it must be the non-MS
system's fault..

Its appalling how far out of their way they will go to not be
interoperable with non-MS systems. (And if you think it isn't
intentional, then the only other explanation is ignorance and
inability to understand RFC text)


On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Dan Lowe wrote:
>
> > Small point, but I know Philip isn't a Windows user.
> >
> > The Content-type: would contain the MIME type such as:
> >
> >    application/msword
> >    application/vnd.ms-excel
> >    text/plain

>
> As a Unix user who gets a lot of mail from Windows users, I think I
> disagree. The content-type in those cases is almost always
>
>    application/octet-stream

>
> -j
>


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