was attached messages was [H-GEN] gmail won't let me talk tomyself.

[De Crow]

Maybe I should fully explain my setup, 3 servers all running Linux of
various distros (Fileserver on Fedora Core3, Proxy running Debian Sarge,
VOIP server running Asterisk at home which is CentOS based) 2 Desktops(or what
I use as Desktops) my Gaming Box which is running M$ WinXP for gamming only
pretty much, and finally a Laptop that is running as basically my
Emailing/contact manager/calendar machine which synchronises with my iPAQ,
if I could somehow get my iPAQ running linux with a solution that will run
the combo SDIO Wifi/256MB Memory Card, and a distro on my laptop to sync
with it, I would.  Unfortunately it seems that I'm stuck with M$ for the
Email etc.


Crowy
(aka Anthony)

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Hi Anthony,

>Greg Black wrote:
>  
>
>>On 2005-10-02, De Crow wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Yet another 
>>>person that I have the same problem with.
>>>      
>>>
>>You don't have a problem with a person; your problem is with software, 
>>and judging from the header I quoted above, I'd say it's probably that 
>>crappy Microsoft thing you're using.  The solution is to do one of the 
>>following:
>>    
>>
>[...]
>  
>
>> * get a better MUA
>>    
>>
>Stuart Longland wrote:
>Actually, apparently Outlook, due to the way it's API is structured, is 
>totally incapable of decoding PGP/MIME emails.  So really, the only 
>real options are to either:
>
>	(1) put up with the irritating problem
>...or	(2) dump Outlook for another MUA (as per Greg's suggestion)
>
>  
>
I can make a strong presonal recommendation for Thunderbird when running on
Microsoft Windows.  It has all the basic functions of Outlook, and most of
the more advanced ones as well (at least the ones I use, anyway).  It
doesn't have auto-forwarding or auto-responses (ie, holiday messages), but
the 1.1.0 release is slated to include these features, and is due out soon.
It can import all your Outlook pst files and your Outlook personal address
book.  There is also an extension to retrieve webmails from Hotmail and
Yahoo (which I run successfully).  It also runs on Linux, so if you decide
to move to Linux on the desktop, you can continue to use Thunderbird
regardless of the platform you use.  I setup a Courier IMAP server to hold
my mail (and fetchmail to fetch it from my various POP accounts)
specifically so that I would no longer be tied to any one MUA.  Just about
every email client in existance does IMAP, though some are better than
others.  Thunderbird I have found to be an excellent IMAP client, for a
start it does offline caching so I can read my mail on my laptop when away
from home.

Most importantly for this thread, it doesn't have a problem with multipart
messages.  :-)

Regards,
Christopher

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