On Monday 17 October 2005 13:28, Matt Parker wrote:
On Monday 17 October 2005 13:03, Anthony Anson wrote:
The message 200510171244.05365.runlevelten@gmail.com
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PS: Those who know about a certain proprietary software I worked on in late= =20 2001 will pour scorn on my standards-compliancy naffness, but I should poin= t=20 out that I worked on the horrid flash-based update UI, not any of the manly= =20 stuff.
Borked again.
I don't know whether your reader retranslates the formatting, or whether in replies you can see all the equal signs and 20s dotted about?
With respect, I think you'll find that it's ZIMACS that's borked. I've checked my e-mails in all mail clients that I have available and none of them has a problem with mail from KMail - other than, it seems, ZIMACS.
I used to be a Zetnet user a few years ago and I remember back then that ZIMACS was a horrible e-mail client - so much so that I refused to use it. Seems like it hasn't changed.
Matt
Replying to myself. I know that's bad form. But from the Zetnet site about ZIMACS you see this:-
"The Zetnet Information Management And Control System is a custom written piece of Windows® software which allows the off-line creation and reading of both e-mail and newsgroup articles. It also uses Zetnet's proprietary mail delivery system ZetMail. This uses the TCP/IP protocol to send the pre-packed mail and news packets to you quickly and allows you to process the incoming information when you disconnect from the system."
The bit about a proprietary mail delivery system shows just how standards compliant you can expect the software to be.
Matt