[pmmail-list] HTML mail again (was: PMMail 2000 Update)

[Robert Gammon]

On Thu, 30 May 2002 17:00:34 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:

>On Thu, 30 May 2002 10:09:08 -0500 (CDT), Robert Gammon wrote:
>
>>>
>>>Did you explain that they were sending non standards-compliant 
>>email
>>>that is a bad advertisement for the company?
>>
>>I got to say ONE sentence, to the effect that it wsas 
>>non-standard to send such mail and it could not/ would not be 
>>read on MY computer.  I was immediately told to shutup 
(however, 
>>the person giving the presentation has absolutely ZERO power to 
>>change things, so my comments would have no possible impact on 
>>the situation).
>
>You must be very tolerant, if someone at work told me to shut 
up,
>especially in front of other people, that would be the last time 
they
>would ever get anything from me.

This person is also the person that has the direct authority to 
hire/fire me. A confrontation on this issue would have firing as 
part of the list of remedies.

>>
>>The broker is on some version of WinNT.  We went through all 
the 
>>settings for the mail tool to see what could be changed.  I 
could 
>>NOT detect what needed to be changed.  There is a signature 
line 
>>that is added to every email that is compliance related, it 
gets 
>>merged inside PMMail/2 with the intended attachment.  Manual 
>>edits of the attachment (Attachments -> Save Selected 
Attachment) 
>>are generally fruitless.
>
>Sounds like the MTA on their server rather than the MUA.
>
>However, if the compliance related thing is being mashed in with 
the
>attachment then it can't possibly be RFC compliant. I'd advise 
them to
>bin it, I bet no one else can read the stuff they send out.

And s/he says that some of clients say thanks, glad for the info, 
so they are getting it.  So it must be a Windows client on each 
end of the conversation.

Robert

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