Re: [Evolution] Dealing with broken mailers

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On 12 Mar 2001 23:28:11 -0800, Richard Zach wrote:
> On 13 Mar 2001 17:20:46 +1030, Not Zed wrote:
> > If you want to see such details (which aren't even important) you can
> > use view-source.
>
> Suppose, for the sake of argument, that they are important to me.  I'm
> the user.  Are you writing Evolution for users or for yourselves?
>
> In this particular case, I actually do find it fairly important to see
> (without having to view source) who the sender of a message is.


People using the bounce command usually dont want you to know anyway/or
dont think its important.  Using other mailers (e.g. elm) I often have
to use "view headers" for similar reasons, and the comments ARE retained
in the message for this reason.

> > Well IMHO there are other reasons not to waste time on 'fixing' these
> > interoperability issues, including the time wasted!
>
> My complaint/question was perfectly general; the two bugs I filed were
> examples only.  Eudora generates broken messages. Evolution deals with
> these in a way that does not present all the relevant information to the
> user (IMHO).  I complained that "Eudora's broken, not our problem" is
> not a good reason not to fix it (or 'fix' it).  If there are good
> reasons, it would be nice if you put them in Bugzilla when you mark the
> bug WONTFIX, and if there are none, it wouldn't hurt anyone (I assume)
> to LATER it if you don't consider it wortwhile for the next milestone. 
>
> I really don't mean to be confrontational or anything. I'm spending a
> fair amount of time on testing, filing bugs, etc.  Being told "Won't fix
> this, waste of time" doesn't really make me feel like my (perhaps
> meager) contributions are being appreciated.


Well i gave you a better and more accurate reason - they do not affect
interoperability.  You would be rest assured we would be most concerned
with real interoperability problems.


> -Richard
>
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