[Alpine-info] Test mail to "Forwarded mail partially invisible in Outlook"

[Olaf Skibbe]

Thanks Andreas for the exhaustive check.

Today, I informed the IT department of the university about the problem. 
Let's see if they are interested.

On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 at 23:07, Andreas Schamanek wrote:


> On Sun, 18 Feb 2024, at 13:17, Olaf Skibbe wrote:

>

>> The question I would like to address here, is whether alpine is 

>> behaving standard compliant or not. If not, we have a bug in alpine.

>

> I wonder how to validate the MIME structure of a message. I guess 

> there are tools but I don't know of any.

>

> I'd say Alpine is behaving correctly, especially in the sense that in 

> your case (the message generated by OWA) it does not modify what it 

> forwards, and it wraps it properly AFAICS.


In case our IT department is claiming an non-standard behavior of 
alpine, I would ask them to point out in which regard this is and bring 
it to your attention.


> I must say I have had to deal with issues with more complicated 

> messages in the past. Not often, but I do remember that people 

> complained about not being able to see or open parts of messages.


I sometimes send e-mails as attachement, or several e-mails as attached 
digest. Notoriously, Apple Mail is not able to open this.


> Probably. A number of my colleagues just try to explain the values of 

> open source compared to offers by too big to block corporations. I 

> feel like trapped in an epic saga, you know, the David versus Goliath 

> kind. The level of entertainment is questionable, though.


Same here. The IT department is pushing very much towards 
Exchange/Outlook. We have framework contracts on state level with 
Microsoft. I somehow expect the recommendation to use Outlook to avoid 
the problem as answer to my report. I agree, a questionable 
entertainment.

Cheers
Olaf