It seems to me that Eric is being helpful at every opportunity, but you are determined to be unpleasant.
Helpful is one thing, being real is another. You call it unpleasant, I call it plain speaking.
Pocosystems have already explained at length their reluctance to encourage people to be fowarding html mesages with possibly dodgy code embedded. Personlaly I agree with them fully.
My comments have
nothing to do with the forwarding of HTML msgs. That may be the OP's concern, but I, like you, think it is a good thing that Poco does not simply use some industry standard renderer (e.g., IE); I too agree that the security that Poco provides is well worth its lack of ability to deal with these complex msgs that to my mind way overuse HTML type formatting.
No, my point is the many bugs that have been reported, and that are easily reproduced, go on without being addressed -- in some cases for years. I have a rather long list of these reproducable bugs, some of which I have reported myself (and I never report a bug without providing reproducable steps). I have also seen on several occasions where PSI admittedly loses track of reported bugs, and have said that their policy is to simply ask the users to report the bug over and over again until it is fixed.
Rather that attempting to convince you of all this, I will give you one good example. This bug has no connection to HTML, and I, for one, am sick of dealing with it (I have also reported it at least 3 times -- including as a beta tester). Something as simple as the duplication of an address on the To: line needs to be fixed. Try this:
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1. Create a Reply to a msg.
2. Note the sender's address is on the To: line as expected. Now type in a comma after that single email address (a comma + space does just as well)
3. After the comma, type in enough of a new name into the To: line until Poco comes up with a unique single email address.
4. Tab away from the To: line
5. You will note that the email address you added has been duplicated on the To: line.
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