Inline SPAM warnings {Scanned by HJMS}

[Furnish, Trever G]

Yes!!!  Nice tip.  Tested here with outlook 2k sp3 and the warning is
displayed inline but the original spam is still displayed as an attachment.

I have no clue what the difference is supposed to be between "digest" and
"report" though, so no clue whether that would have unwanted side-effects.
If not, then that would seem like a nice thing to change for a future MS
release...

-t.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Desai, Jason [mailto:jase at SENSIS.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 5:18 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Inline SPAM warnings {Scanned by HJMS}
>
>
> 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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