Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 05:57:39 +0100 From: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> To: "Minnesota Slinky" <mnslinky@yahoo.com>, "'Gregory Sutter'" <gsutter@zer0.org>, "'SWIT'" <mark@s-wit.net> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO going after BSD??? Message-ID: <200311200557.45071@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <000c01c3af1e$b42e9fe0$6801a8c0@Nomad> References: <000c01c3af1e$b42e9fe0$6801a8c0@Nomad>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thursday 20 November 2003 05:28, Minnesota Slinky wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gregory Sutter > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 7:39 PM > To: SWIT > Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: SCO going after BSD??? > > On 2003-11-19 20:11 -0500, SWIT <mark@s-wit.net> wrote: > > is this a unix thing or what. > > many times i get messages from the list were the message is an > attachment > > and not in the email. > > was curious as to why. > > The messages you see as attachments are messages that have been PGP > signed to prove their authenticity. The problem is with Outlook > Express. Not only does it fail to support PGP/MIME (many programs > don't support PGP/MIME and still can display PGP signed email > correctly), but it is actually broken. Outlook Express ignores the > following MIME headers in the message: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Disposition: inline > > These headers show that the part is not an attachment but should be > displayed inline, and that it contains pure text that doesn't need a > special handler to be displayed. Why Outlook Express fails to > recognize this, and why Microsoft fails to issue a patch to fix the > problem, is unknown. > > [ > Response paraphrased from: > http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2003-September/020155.html > ] > > Greg > -- > Gregory S. Sutter Fighting ignorance since 1975! > mailto:gsutter@zer0.org (It's taking longer than I thought.) > http://zer0.org/~gsutter/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > > > I talked to a couple of people who do beta testing for Microsoft and > they said the issue came up a few years ago. According to them (one > being my father), it has to do with security and virus protection. Yea, of course I undertand that they're concentrating on text/plain viruses. First they have to get this problem fixed, then they'll perhaps have a look at executables. And if they make bulbs, darkness will be standard... SCNR -Harry P.S.: Please always answer above signatures. Good MUAs will strip them when quoting so everybody has to change settings to be able to answer! > Again, this is second-hand, so take it for what it's worth... > > Eric F Crist > President > AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc > (952) 403-9000 > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/vEnIBylq0S4AzzwRAsPOAKCQOKElRg80HMAPKGc8PWFQ9scAEQCfQ/3N MaIip9GAnKlXLBQ263V8q7E= =Hb8d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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