I think it is very poor decision that Lotus is not intending to implement a solution to the issue with receiving unusable mail attachments (C.DTF) from Outlook when the body contains formatted text.
Certainly Microsoft messed up in creating their own modification to a standard. But the reality is that Microsoft Outlook is so commonly used now that it is difficult to take back that mistake. When Lotus says this is Microsoft’s problem, that doesn’t change the fact that it is Lotus Note’s users are the ones who suffer because of it.
My understanding is that Notes lumps all the good and bad attachments into one big bad C.DTF attachment. Can’t Notes make some reasonable interpretation of the attachments so that the good attachments are accessible?
Why should the Notes user community settle for the hassle of a work-around that requires them to ask the sender to retransmit in plain text? To the average user, the appearance of this is that Notes is an inadequate mail client. Lotus could modify Notes to handle this situation and save us all a lot of trouble.
