YEnc is not as yet a standard among mail apps. When it becomes a standard
and has an RFC outlining how it should and does work, then it might be
acceptable. Until then, there are some reasons why it may create problems
outlined in the following links.
Reasons why yEnc support is not a good idea:
http://www.faerber.muc.de/temp/20020...c-harmful.html
Why yEnc is bad for Usenet:
http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/yenc.html
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Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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"Lorne Smith" <floating_fat_man@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1169C2E7-F6BE-4AA2-BC89-D0E65C3E3BA5@microsoft.com...
> So, why does Vista Mail not support yEnc? People have been wanting
> Outlook Express to support this fairly old, and VERY common, usenet
> encoding method for a LONG time, and the latest version, now named Vista
> Mail, was the perfect opportunity to include it.
>
> So, WHY have they chosen to ignore this widely used standard? I fail to
> understand what possible reasoning they could have to ignore it,
> especially when almost every other newsreader out there DOES.