Please note this was NOT from me to the list but was redirected by Stef to the list (a bad practice)

[David Farber <dave at farber.net>]

> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:37:02 -0800
> To: ietf at ietf.org
> From: David Farber <dave at farber.net> (by way of Einar Stefferud)
> Subject: IP: Microsoft breaks Mime specification
> Sender: owner-ietf at ietf.org
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>
> This needs to be given some attention in the IETF...\Stef
>
>
> > Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:25:45 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
> > From: Frode Greisen <Frode.Greisen at ebone.net>
> > To: David Farber <farber at 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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