2021-09-03: Outlook Web Apps: WTF                            rak
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I recently moved to Montreal to start a postdoc at McGill.
Annoyingly, McGill uses Office365/OWA with mandatory 2FA for
their email, so I had to patch neomutt to support XOAUTH2
authentication [0]. Infinitely more annoying is the following
OWA "feature": I saved a draft of a plaintext email over IMAP
using neomutt. When I went to resume my email, I discoverd that
OWA had converted my email to, you guessed it, HTML. Thankfully,
they were kind enough to tell me that they had done so by adding
an HTML comment: <!-- converted from text -->

   <html>
   <head>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
   <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Exchange Server">
   <!-- converted from text --><style><!-- .EmailQuote { margin-left: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; border-left: #800000 2px solid; } --></style>
   </head>
   <body>
   <font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">
   <div class="PlainText">Hi,<br>
   <br>
   blah blah blah<br>
   <br>
   blah blah blah blah<br>
   blah blah blah<br>
   <br>
   Ryan<br>
   <br>
   -- <br>
   |)|/&nbsp; Ryan Kavanagh&nbsp; | 4E46 9519 ED67 7734 268F<br>
   |\|\&nbsp; <a href="https://rak.ac" target="_BLANK">https://rak.ac</a> | BD95 8F7B F8FC 4A11 C97A<br>
   </div>
   </span></font>
   </body>
   </html>

Who the actual fuck thought this was a good idea or that it was
remotely helpful?

[0] https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/3032