Inline SPAM warnings {Scanned by HJMS}

[Ken Anderson]

Furnish, Trever G wrote:

> 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.

mozilla's "view->attachments inline" allows you do adjust this behavior,
as does Outlook (somewhere...)
Ken A.


> 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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