I'll try to remember to use PGP for this list in the future. Sorry for any inconvenience.
-- Regards, Terrence Koeman Technical Director/Administrator MediaMonks B.V. (www.mediamonks.nl) Please quote all replies in correspondence. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andy Schmidt > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 15:58 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Signed Email Problems > > > Terry: > > Thank you for letting me know. I have to post this to the list, > as my mail > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounced back - plus, this info may help other > folks. > > > I always try to REMEMBER to turn the digital signature off - but > occasionally I slip. I apologize. > > I have one thought on the reason for Outlooks behavior: My digital > signature is currently issued by TrustCenter.DE and it is possible that > their root certificate may not be installed in your workstation - while > VeriSign and others are. I never realized that this could make a > difference > until you pointed it out today. > > Also, I know that MS Outlook has a feature where it checks the revocation > list each time a message is received - causing long delays. We did have > problems with another site's firewall, that sometimes would not permit > certain SSL transactions - interfering with the revocation checking and > causing Outlook to wait for a LONG time out before it eventually > continued. > The problem with the firewall was, that the state changed, or > something like > that. > > I remember that one person, after a while, found either in the MS > knowledge > base > or in the help screens a way to turn off the revocation checking > for digital > signatures. That made a huge difference in the time it takes to > open signed > mail in Outlook. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 05:46 AM > To: 'Andy Schmidt' > Cc: Smart Business Support > Subject: email problems > > > Hi Andy, > > I receive messages from you on the Declude and Ipswitch lists. > > I have always had a lot of trouble with your digitally signed messages > but generally I could eventually read them. Sometimes they were fine > and would give no problem at all other than a noticeable pause in > opening and other times there would be delays of a minute or two before > I could open a message. > > But I've switched to Outlook XP now as part of my Office XP upgrade. > Now your digitally signed messages sometimes cause my entire workstation > to freeze up for quite some time. The most recent message I finally > had to delete and was never able to actually open it. I see an > information message in the lower status bar that the message has an > invalid signature. I tried everything I knew to open it for about 20 > minutes and finally had to kill Outlook and restart it. Then I > carefully opened the folder and right clicked the message and deleted it > or otherwise I would have been back in the same mess. > > I don't have problems with other signed messages so I am unclear why > this is happening on yours. For instance I also had a signed message > from Jerod Bennet and it was fine. I had a signed message from you on > the 4th that I could read as well. > > I thought you'd like to know about this in case it is happening to > others somewhere and they haven't informed you. > > I don't know the problem and I'm not complaining as I appreciate your > posts. > > Cordially, > > > Terry Fritts > > > > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com . --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)]
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