Mozilla mail question

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

Probably pretty close, but I would suspect other standards-based clients 
(Outlook Express, Eudora) would get the same result.  Exchange probably 
(intelligently - ha ha) strips the out the proprietary code in messages 
accessed by a POP client.  Mozilla probably never gets the chance to decode it.

At 09:03 AM 1/10/03 -0600, Jason Joines wrote:

>    There is an article in the February issue of Linux Journal about 
> replacing Microshaft Exchange (there is a commercial product at 
> http://www.bynari.net/insightserver.html).
>    From what I can tell Outlook users who connect to the Exchange server 
> exchange messages in a proprietary format with proprietary headers 
> (Corporate WorkGroup Mode).  When you connect with Mozilla as a POP 
> client, it can't decode this format.  If your send mail with Mozilla, it 
> never converts the mail to a non standard format, so you can read it just 
> fine.  If the Outlook users were to be connected to a standard POP/IMAP 
> server they would be in Internet Mail Only Mode and would stick closer to 
> the standard so you could probably read their stuff.  If your mail were 
> on a different non-Exchange system, mail from your Outlook/Exchange users 
> would have to go through an MTA which would recode the message and 
> headers to standard before sending it on to the remote system.  You 
> should be able to read that fine too.  The problem is indeed the use of a 
> non-standards based mail system.



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