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by felideon 477 days ago
> how to make Outlook work

Well that’s your first problem. Unless you’re using corporate email?
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nimish 476 days ago
Correct. It's corporate email. Imagine the amount of contributions that are gated behind stupid email policies because some fossil mailing list client can't handle modern email in the year of our lord 2025
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pritambaral 476 days ago
> Outlook

> modern email

That can't be true. Now, I haven't used Outlook myself, but I've received enough garbage from that godforsaken relic of a time when MS wanted to EEE email to know that that can't be true.

FWIW, I've posted patches to the PG mailing list just fine with GMail. The web app, that is.

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nimish 476 days ago
OK. Every major corporation uses Outlook and there is no way I can change that so by not accepting its foibles you are artificially stopping interested contributors who would do it on company time and hardware

It's a very FOSS pathology.

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majewsky 476 days ago
If by "pathology" you mean "we optimize for the comfort of the people already actively engaged in the project instead of hypothetical future contributors", I don't think this argument is as strong as you think it is.

If anything, this kind of excessive legal and process red tape is much more common in enterprise-driven vs. community-driven open source projects.

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nimish 475 days ago
No that's not what I mean, don't put words in my mouth.

> excessive legal and process red tape

I just wanna hit "Send" in my standard email client, not set up pine and debug a mail spooler

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