Re: [Asrg] What can we expect MUAs to do?

"Chris Lewis" <clewis@nortel.com> Mon, 08 February 2010 18:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] What can we expect MUAs to do?
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Steve Atkins wrote:

> While there are end user MUAs that are in reasonably widespread use
> that do not support POP3 or do not support IMAP or do not store
> mail messages locally  I don't believe there are any end user MUAs used by
> any relevant user demographic that do not support MIME to a reasonable
> extent.

And even if there were, I can't see it that difficult to encorporate a 
fixed template that contains a "fill in the blanks" ARF report wrapped 
in a fixed MIME template.  Possibly under a fixed encoding to side-step 
NLS issues.

IOW: not generalized MIME capability, just some hardcoded hack for abuse 
reports.