[rescue] (Offtopic) X-Message-Flag fun for Outlook users

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:52:21AM -0700, Devin L. Ganger wrote:
> However, these flags don't just show up as nice little informational
> boxes on the message that I can look at and laugh; they also flag the
> message for followup. Since I'm attempting to actually use some of the
> nicer features of Outlook (including the Search Folders functionality),
> these falsely-tagged messages are starting to become more of a nuisance.

Use a crappy mail client, deal with the crap that comes with it? 8-)

mrbill at ohno:~> mutt -v
Mutt 1.5.11 (2005-09-15)
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

System: SunOS 5.9 (sun4u) [using slang 20006] [using libiconv 1.8]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL  -USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  -DL_STANDALONE
+USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK   -USE_INODESORT
-USE_POP  -USE_IMAP  -USE_GSS  -USE_SSL  -USE_GNUTLS  -USE_SASL
+HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR  -HAVE_START_COLOR  -HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  -HAVE_BKGDSET
-HAVE_CURS_SET  -HAVE_META  -HAVE_RESIZETERM
+CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP  +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME  -CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME  -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET  +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  -HAVE_LIBIDN  +HAVE_GETSID  -HAVE_GETADDRINFO  -USE_HCACHE
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER
To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev at mutt.org>.
To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.

Wow, I just realized that I've been using Mutt for .. eight years now.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas