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wrote about problems of MH (ch04)
| author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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| date | Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:24:30 +0100 |
| parents | ca929b042039 |
| children | f0511a56416e |
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| 1015 .] | 1015 .] |
| 1016 | 1016 |
| 1017 .NH 2 | 1017 .NH 2 |
| 1018 Problems | 1018 Problems |
| 1019 .LP | 1019 .LP |
| 1020 modern emailing | 1020 \s-1MH\s0, for sure is not without problems. |
| 1021 MIME | 1021 There are two main problems: one technical, the other about human behavior. |
| 1022 encodings | 1022 .PP |
| 1023 largest problem: different feeling | 1023 \s-1MH\s0 is old and email today is very different to email in the time |
| 1024 when \s-1MH\s0 was designed. | |
| 1025 \s-1MH\s0 adopted to the changes pretty well, but it is limited. | |
| 1026 For example in development resources. | |
| 1027 \s-1MIME\s0 support and support for different character encodings | |
| 1028 is available, but only on a moderate level. | |
| 1029 More active developers could quickly improve there. | |
| 1030 It is also limited by design, which is the larger problem. | |
| 1031 \s-1IMAP\s0, for example, conflicts with \s-1MH\s0's design to a large extend. | |
| 1032 These design conflicts are not easily solvable. | |
| 1033 Possibly, they require a redesign. | |
| 1034 .PP | |
| 1035 The other kind of problem is human habits. | |
| 1036 When in this world almost all \s-1MUA\s0s are monolithic, | |
| 1037 it is very difficult to convince people to use a toolbox style \s-1MUA\s0 | |
| 1038 like \s-1MH\s0. | |
| 1039 The habits are so strong, that even people who understood the concept | |
| 1040 and advantages of \s-1MH\s0 do not like to switch. | |
| 1041 Unfortunately, the frontends to \s-1MH\s0, which can provide familiar look'n'feel, | |
| 1042 are not very appealing in contrast to what monolithic \s-1MUA\s0s offer. | |
| 1024 | 1043 |
| 1025 .NH 2 | 1044 .NH 2 |
| 1026 Summary \s-1MH\s0 | 1045 Summary \s-1MH\s0 |
| 1027 .LP | 1046 .LP |
| 1028 flexibility, no redundancy, use the shell | 1047 flexibility, no redundancy, use the shell |