On Sunday, May 22, 2016 4:20 AM, John Levine wrote:
Brian sent me a message/rfc822 wrapped version of his message, so I
stuffed it into my Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail mailboxs after looking at
it in Apple mail and Thuderbird and of course Alpine. Gmail flattens
it to look like a text forward, Yahoo loses the headers on the
wrappped message, Hotmail and Apple mail show it as an attachment you
can download, Thunderbird and Alpine show all the relevant bits, but
not in a particularly attractive way.
Let me give a "half full" view of this "half empty" glass. This experiment
shows that not all UA to the right thing, but some actually do. If the
"forwarded" scenario becomes important, user pressure and competition will
drive more UA to improve their handling -- or more customers to switch to
systems that handle such messages correctly. So there is some hope.
-- Christian Huitema