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Damian Walker  
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 More options Jan 11 2008, 3:36 am
Newsgroups: comp.sys.psion.misc
From: Damian Walker <dam...@snigfarp.karoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:36:19 +0000
Local: Fri, Jan 11 2008 3:36 am
Subject: Re: A proper email client for EPOC
Quoting Roger Burton West's message of Wednesday:

> It ignores Reply-To: headers when replying to mail; it doesn't add
> In-Reply-To: or References: when replying, thus breaking threading;
> and when sending mail it sets Reply-To: the sender, which causes
> trouble on mailing lists. The second might just about have been
> forgiveable in 1998; the others were not. (And it rewraps anything it
> decides is a paragraph, which makes fixing the quoting more of a chore
> than it needs to be.)

Ah, quite a catalogue, then.  I must admit I use EPOC email (5mx/MC218
version) only on a corporate mail system, where people are generally
less technically aware.  Doubtless if I was trying to use it for
personal email then some of these things would annoy me.

--
Damian - http://damian.snigfarp.karoo.net/
Put "sausage" in the subject of email replies to avoid my spam trap.


 
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