[WEB4LIB] web based e-mail ( email ) in Russian or other foreign languages

[Andrew Cunningham]

At 01:26 PM 9/28/01 -0700, Josh Kuperman wrote:
>Does anyone maintain a list of web based e-mail providers, who provide
>services including instructions in Russian and other foreign (to me)
>languages?
>
>I have found that e.g. HotMail provides French, Italian, Spanish, and
>a few other Western European Languages and that there are various
>pobox sites like www.pobox.sk or www.pobox.ru. Though I can only
>assume that the Russian pobox site is a commercial web based email
>service the same as www.pobox.com. I don't read Russian so I can't
>tell.. 
>
>So perhaps I should be asking for a list in English on sites that
>provide free web based email organized by supported languages and how
>to find the instructions in both English and the supported languages. 
>

depending on the range of languages you wish to support through web based
email services, you should look for one that correctly handles mime types ,
esp charsets, and that can decode transformation encodings such as base64,
PQ, and uuencoding that may be used in various parts email clients to send
mail.

>-- 
>Josh Kuperman                       
>josh at saratoga.lib.ny.us
>
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