Re: Thunderbird & Okular question
Tim:
> Wild guess: The problem email you're dealing with was
generated using
> a Microsoft system. They've had thirty (?) years to get a grip on
> properly using MIME types, but haven't learnt it yet.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
Make that 18 years (the earliest MIME RFC is dated 1992), but still
...
Oops, mixing things up with 822, which has a 1982 vintage, getting close
to 30 years old. Must... stop... relying... on... umm... memory...
Yes, but still... /nearly/ 20 years on, and they still haven't managed
to do attachments properly. I heard a rumour that they've finally
managed to support alpha-transparency in PNGs, but I don't know whether
to believe it. ;-/
Microsoft is still the spotty teenager that thinks it knows best, when
it most certainly does not. ;-)
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