[pmmail-list] long-time question

[Maurice Guéron]

Merci Guillaume. C'est clair.
mg

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:39:50 +0100 (CET), Guillaume Gay wrote:

|Bonjour Maurice,
|
|On 2003-12-13 at 10:00:46, you wrote:
|>|  The setting really does not do much for western languages.
|>EVEN AS REGARDS FRENCH ACCENTS?
|No need to SHOUT, Maurice ! (Tu pousses le bouchon un peu loin... (;-))
|
|>CONCLUSION: WHAT SETTINGS SHOULD I USE? QP OR 8BIT OR NONE?
|Just use : 
|* Default Character Set : ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1) 
| [ Since ISO 8859-15 (Latin1) is *still* not supported by PMMail ]
|* Encoding format : 8 bit
| [ Since it should be supported everywhere by now ]
|That's all.
|
|You'll still have problems with incoming messages with incorrect headers 
|anyway ("Content-Type" and "Content-Transfer-Encoding" fields missing, 
|accentuated letters or line breaks in subjects, etc.). Unfortunately,
this 
|is not likely to change in PMMail, unless BluePrintSoft(a)wareWorks
decide 
|to put money in it for its development.
|
|You can nevertheless find workarounds for some of these annoying
problems. 
|For example there are some REXX scripts that check every incoming
messages 
|for a missing field. A brave soul here will sure be kind enough to give
the 
|URL.
|Be aware [ Copyright (c) Jean-Claude Van Damme - famous belgian humorist
- 
|future president or the Belgian republic (shhh don't tell him there's 
|none), maybe? ] this will have an impact on the performances...
|
|I wondered if someone here has made a comparative review on various 
|"cross-platform" mail clients (namely : PMMail, MR/2, Thunderbird,
PolarBar 
|mailer, ...)?
|
|>SETTINGS ACCORDING TO THE LANGUAGE I USE FOR MY MESSAGE? ACCORDING TO
THE
|>SYSTEM USD BU THE RECCEIVER?
|Don't worry. The above settings just work. PMMail will produce RFC 
|compliant messages, even if it still can't properly read some incoming 
|messages (coming from OutLook or other infected-messages-generators).
|
|Feel free to come and discuss it (in our mother tongue) on a "good old" 
|usenet forum : fr.comp.os.os2.
|
|Salut Maurice.
|Bye to all.
|
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