Outlook Sux (Was: [2.6 patch] dpt_i2o fix for deadlock condition)

From: Salyzyn, Mark (mark_salyzyn_at_adaptec.com)
Date: 11/29/05

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To: "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@stusta.de>, "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

    From: Adrian Bunk [mailto:bunk@stusta.de] writes:
    >> There must still be a way to tell outlook to make the type something
    >> useful, rather than application/octet-stream. maybe if the extension

    >> was .patch.txt it would do something smarter.
    > Patches in Attachments aren't nice, but better than corrupted patches.

    :-)

    Part of the problem is cut-n-paste engines on M$ and preservation of
    content, the other part of the problem is the MUA making up it's own
    rules on what constitutes a text document. It is not the MTA, sendmail
    is blameless.

    > It's unfortunate, but bitching on the people who are somehow forced to

    > use crappy email clients is IMHO not a good idea.

    We could always require that if a patch is done as an attachment, that
    if it is smaller than 2K and/or at the submitters option, it also be
    present as in-line content for code review convenience?

    Thanks for that defense, I appreciate it. I am trapped in corporate
    policy and MIS monitoring requirements. I have tried to make our MIS
    department miserable over this issue, the sheer quantity of attempts to
    mitigate is boggling and is still open. If I was paranoid, I'd almost
    believe that M$ specifically decided to ignore RFC822 and all it's
    children just to make it an impossible tool to use for submitting Linux
    patches.

    Now, if *someone* had an idea how I could configure Outlook 2002 to
    properly produce in-line patches *that* would earn my eternal gratitude
    (or a single stay at Hotel Salyzyn when visiting the Orlando Mouse House
    ;-> ). Outlook 2003 gets worse still by corrupting attachments (!) and I
    thus reverted back to 2002.

    Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn
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