The Register's original story [1] makes clear that the problem was not Microsoft's mail clients: > “It is a fairly specific workflow that is a challenge for so

The Register's original story [1] makes clear that the problem was not Microsoft's mail clients: > “It is a fairly specific workflow that is a challenge for some newer developers to engage with. As an example, my partner submitted a patch to OpenBSD a few weeks ago, and he had to set up an entirely new mail client which didn’t mangle his email message to HTML-ise or do other things to it, so he could even make that one patch. That’s a barrier to entry that’s pretty high for somebody who may want to be a first-time contributor.” > We assumed that Outlook was to blame. Could Microsoft fix that instead? “The question always is fix it to whose standards, because we are focused much more on business and enterprise models of clients and customers. For them we fixed it to a more HTML-based model so it really depends on who your audience is and who your target is.” > It turned out, though, that this time Outlook was not guilty. “I think it was actually Gmail that was a barrier. And he also couldn’t do it from Apple Mail. It is just that the modern mail client has intentionally moved towards HTML,” she said. [1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/