From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>Morning all,
>
>This one's a bit naughty, but the Penguinillas amongst us may
>enjoy it...
>Some may already know, I'm sure. ;)
>
>I've found another way to fool Outlook and Outlook Express
>into misbehaving,
>making your emails unreadable. A fun way to do this is by automatically
>getting your replies to 'break' the MUA. So, over the last
>week or so, I've
>set mutt up like this:
>
> set attribution = "begin %n quotation:\n"
>
>
>Any reply will start with, for instance, "begin Rodos
>quotation:" making
>the MS products show a "quotation.dat" file as an attachment,
>and no text
>within the email.
>
>[ For those of you using Outlook Express, you can read these
>emails by going
>to File > Properties > 'Full Source' (or something like that) ]
>
>Why the two spaces? Because that's important. :) The MS
>products interpret
>anything after the word "begin" (at the start of a new line) with two
>trailing spaces, as an attachment. There's no way that could *possibly*
>happen out in the wild, is there? ;) Strong stuff, MS.
>
>Supposedly, if you do this *anywhere* within the body,
>
>begin gotcha.
>
>the MS products will regard the rest as an attachment. It's not even
>restricted to a specific point in the email (say the first line). One
>wonders why MS couldn't restrict their toying to the headers,
>instead of
>trampling all over the body...
>
>
>So, in the interests of open information, I've changed my attribution
>setting back to something a little more conventional. But if
>you need to
>cause some havoc sometime... Remember this one. :)
FYI:
Doesn't work on OL2000 when run through Exchange Server. Must be something
to do with the POP3/IMAP engine?
John Wiltshire
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