Know your mail program

On Wednesday, June 11, 1997 10:22 AM, Alun Thomas
[SMTP:alun.thomas@cbis.com]
wrote:
> Allan Goodall wrote:

This is on topic given the disruption these things cause to the list in
general, here is some things I'd like to share.

Beware Microsoft Exchange/Outlook, this is what I use and you can quite
easily send huge attached files of your mail message in pretty RTF or
MS Word for all those unix/VMS mailers to barf on.

There is a patch from the MS web site to make it behave correctly for internet
mail (MS assumes everyone is using their lovely software for
'net-working') like quoting a reply with '>' (how novel) and setting the
line length to a fixed number of characters (VMS mailers used to truncated the
un-wrapped junk sent).

Also don't use the 'MS Word editor to compose messages' option and remove the
check box that says 'always send in RTF format' to avoid a nasty attachments
being sent to everyone.

I expect the Lotus Notes problems are a result of the same kind application
centric attitude that MS has, as they are in direct competition. There is
probably a patch or option somewhere to turn this junk off, look in the Lotus
web site FAQ's etc. or phone their support desk.

Sincerely