Re: [idn] Re: 7 bits forever!

["David Leung \(Neteka Inc.\)" <david@neteka.com>]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:24:29 EST, "David Leung (Neteka Inc.)" said:
>> That's right "Reply All" means the email program will "Reply All" for
you,
>> so why do you need to type the i18n email address by yourself with your
>> keyboard!! : )
>
>I don't need to *type* the Chinese address.
>
>But if my MUA and MTA can't even *find* the Chinese address, that causes
>much Very Bad JuJu.

Well I thought I was talking about the needs of user to user their KEYBOARD
to TYPE in i18n email, and not the MUA or MTA being able to send or
transport the mail properly to the designate mailbox...
I though this discussion was started because some one said there will be a
need for users to have "KEYBOARDS" capable to type in all languages in order
to use i18n email, and I never said all MUA and MTA can transport or deliver
those email properly, if you see my other posting on this list you will see
that I mentioned that in order to make i18n email to work there MUST be a
protocol change on SMTP and also MIME header changes... I never said that
all MUA and MTA in the world will MAGICALLY work :>

>> BTW, I am always seeing your email as an attachment... is this the same
for
>> other in the mailing list? If so Valdis can you please fix the way how
you
>> send out email first : >
>
>RFC2440.  It's even a Proposed Standard.  If it's causing interoperability
>problems, something probably needs to be done.  I suspect if the *main*
>text/plain is being flagged as an attachment, your MUA doesn't have even
>minimal support for RFC1847 multipart/signed and is downgrading to
>multipart/mixed.

The MUA that I am using is just Outlook... I dont need to built my own MUA
to read email : )

David Leung
Chief Technology Officer
Neteka Inc.
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