From: Christopher John Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 11:55:05 EDT
"Rick McGowan" <rick@unicode.org>
> James Do wrote:
>
> > Outlook Express is superb with Unicode
>
> Hmmm, so it's different from MS Outlook? I'm not sure I get
it. I thought
> Express was just a watered-down version of Outlook itself.
No Outlook and Outlook Express though they look similar are
quite different.
Outlook, which is bundled with MS Office Professional, seems to
be primarily designed to work with Microsoft Exchange on a
corporate network.
Outlook Express, which comes with IE, has some features which
Outlook doesn't have and lacks a few which Outlook has. Overall
it's much easier to use and doesn't cause the problems which
Outlook does - and it's very good with Unicode text.
> The main problem with Outlook that I think Karljuergen is
referring to has
> to do with those darned "winmail.dat" blobs. It doesn't seem
possible, in
> my experience, to set up these MS mailers to _not_ send the
occasional
> winmail.dat blob. Can't that be turned off?? People who use
other mailers
> can't decode the attachments because they're not standard
MIME...
Using Outlook or MS Word to send "rich" email resuts in
"winmail.dat" blobs being sent - but Outlook Express does not
seem to generate these as it uses HTML and multi-part MIME.
- Chris
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