I've heard of this before. It's something odd about the way the MS Outlook handles digitally signed emails. I'm afraid I couldn't begin to suggest how to have it handle them differently. :(
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 11:46, Philipp Hanes wrote: > I'd like to offer an example of the somewhat perturbing situations that seem > to come up. > I use MS Outlook 2000 (not much choice at the office). > > Here's how Outlook saw this message from Sean Quinlan: > It's a message that has as its body just what you see below (the Boston.pm > mailing list footer) and an untitled email message as an attachment. > Opening up that untitled email attachment gives me an email with *no* > content at all, and a text file attachment (called in this case > "ATT494796.txt", which may be a feature of Outlook, I don't know). > Opening *that* attachment finally gets me to the actual text of Sean's > message. > I have no idea what it would look like if there were a code snippet attached > to it. > > Clearly this is a very different experience from up-arrowing through my > messages and reading them in the "preview pane". > > I know this is really a thread about viruses, but as many others probably > feel much as I do that attachments in general are suspect unless I know > exactly what they're for, I'd like to dissuade use of them for anything that > could be presented just in the plain text of an email message. > Long code examples are completely reasonable to have as attachments, to me. > > Of course, if someone can help me tweak Outlook to make these nested > messages less of a pain to read, I'd be quite grateful too :-) > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Sean Quinlan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 11:14 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [Boston.pm] list viruses > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Boston-pm mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm -- Sean Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
