[kronolith] State of iCalendar standards/implementation

[Brent J. Nordquist]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:

> Although remember that you can still access the mailstore using
> IMAP/POP3 with other clients.  My work does this, so I use Outlook
> 2000 to access the calendaring, and mutt/IMP for the actual mail.

Yes, and I appreciate the thought.  Chuck and I discussed that this
morning.  It seems we have a significant community of users here that
*prefers* Outlook as their mail client.  I've been pushing the benefits of
client choice; it wouldn't be very consistent of me to say "Open standards
means you can pick any mail client you want!  Oh... *except* Outlook."
:-)

> (been trying to use Outlook for the last month.  Horrible :-( Even
> quoting messages properly is a pain)

Yup.  At the time, it was touted as the way email was going to go...
paragraph-level quoting with colors and bars, etc., rather than the
traditional quoting.  It seems the rest of the world didn't think so... I
notice now that OL formats the message with nonproportional fonts, and
allows you to quote with >, etc.  In the beginning it wasn't even an
option.

I used Outlook for a few years, back when I was still using Windows as my
desktop.  It locked up all my mail in those nifty (!) TNEF (winmail.dat)
attachments... even when I moved it all to an IMAP server later my
attachments were still imprisoned.  Now, of course, the TNEF blob itself
(with all your attachments) was nicely MIME-encoded and attached...
<shakes head>.

(Now there's detnef, but back then there wasn't.)

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