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> I also contribute to FOSS projects, and using Outlook is an impediment to projects whose mailing lists are based on inline posting Based on my testing, that'
by u801e 5y ago
> I also contribute to FOSS projects, and using Outlook is an impediment to projects whose mailing lists are based on inline posting
Based on my testing, that's not the only problem with using MS email clients on FOSS mailing lists. There's no concept of threading beyond the conversation view, and the client also mangles the email (wrapping or even sending base64 encoded test instead of the raw text. Even if your client sets the Message-ID header, MS servers will delete the header and replace it with their own.
- neelc 5y agoYes, and that. I don't use Outlook/Exchange outside of work, frankly never did, but did read from time to time the issues with Outlook norms versus *nix email norms. I didn't need Outlook before I joined Microsoft, every student in my high school used their personal email (despite the school having an Exchange server), and my college used Google Workspace (I'm not that old TBH). I also lived entirely on FOSS software before joining MSFT, so to move every piece of personal self-hosted infrastructure to Microsoft's cloud services would be too painful and I have better things to do in my free time.