[PLUG] Linux Mail and Windows XP

[Shahms E. King]

Not that it's actually helpful, but Outlook is known to have very broken
and non-standard attachment handling. I can point you to a large number
of evolution mailling list threads regarding this issue in a number of
contexts, including HTML mail, and encrypted mail (where it is REALLY
broken)

--Shahms

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 10:58, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Keith Nasman wrote:
> 
> | On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Russ Johnson wrote:
> |
> | > Most likely, yes. This was the microsoft *fix* for email worms.
> | >
> | > Here's the CNet news article: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-255431.html
> | >
> | > At 09:56 AM 6/5/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> | >
> | > >Has anyone seen such things happen to them? Are there settings in XP's
> | > >Outlook that disable/turn off attachments?
> | >
> | > Unfortunately, the only cure is to uninstall Outlook, and reinstall,
> | > without the fix.
> | >
> | > Russ Johnson
> | > http://www.dimstar.net
> |
> | Hmm. Well I attached a .doc file so unless they are checking inside the
> | file they are denying all Word documents. That's smart(NOT!). Do you think
> | there is some inconsistency in the way OpenOffice saves the file as a .doc
> | that is causing this? Of course, my recipient didn't say he got a warning
> | like mentioned in the article. I'm sending a native Word 2000 document
> | from both Outlook Express and Evolution to find out which (or both) get
> | there.
> |
> | Stay tuned :-)
> 
> I've been told by someone (running Windows) who I send email to
> (with attachments) that he can see the attachments if he forwards
> the email to himself (!!??).
> 
> -- 
> ~Randy
> 
> 
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