Inline SPAM warnings {Scanned by HJMS}

[Desai, Jason]

Anybody know if Outlook would display the spam warning if it had a
Content-Type of "multipart/report" instead of "multipart/digest"?  I've been
thinking about trying this but haven't had the time.  We have some of our
users so well trained that they are even afraid to open any attachments.  So
when spam is attached, and the warning also shows up as an attachment with a
name something like ATT234567.txt, we get a request for help since it looks
suspicious.  I think Outlook 2k displayed them, but not 2k2.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Furnish, Trever G [mailto:TGFurnish at HERFF-JONES.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 6:01 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Inline SPAM warnings {Scanned by HJMS}
>
>
> AFAIK that's the way outlook works - attachments aren't
> displayed inline
> unless they're pictures.  And that's also the way I *wish*
> mozilla worked -
> the whole point of "attaching" a message (well, unless you're
> unpacking
> rfc822 attachments for sa-learn) is to PREVENT the client
> from displaying
> the attachment.
>
> When you display the spam attachment inline (as mozilla does), you're
> vulnerable to all the same problems that you are if you just
> deliver it
> untouched - images that identify your email address as a
> valid one and other
> security exploits that enable *really* bad things.
>
> Users complain - it's their nature.  Cook a few of them up
> for the next
> company barbeque as a lesson to the rest. ;^)
>
> (Um, that *was* a joke, in case anyone from my company is reading and
> humor-impaired.)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Hooton [mailto:david at PLATFORMHOSTING.COM]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 4:40 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Inline SPAM warnings {Scanned by HJMS}
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have a policy of attach and deliver for messages which are
> > classed as
> > spam.  Recently we've had a bunch of complaints about some
> > Outlook users
> > not having the inline spam message inline, but showing up as
> > an attachment.
> >
> > For me using Mozilla everything looks fine, but some exchange
> > & outlook
> > users seem to not be getting things as you'd expect.
> >
> > We updated to the most recent release as of last Friday,
> but this has
> > made no difference.  Does anyone have any tips?
> >
> > TIA
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > David Hooton
> > Senior Partner
> > Platform Hosting
> > 1300 85 HOST
> > www.platformhosting.com
> >
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