Problem With PDF Files - SOLVED

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Apr 30 17:10:18 IST 2004


At 17:00 30/04/2004, you wrote:
>At 02:40 30/04/2004, you wrote:
>> > Wow, this now fixes the issue I have been having with certain pdfs.
>> > It is odd to note that it wasnt ALL pdfs that were being broken by the
>> > (now discovered) inline message.
>> > We actually narrowed it down yesterday to PDFs being created/printed
>> > from the latest version of QuickBooks with the latest version of Acrobat
>> > Professional V6.01.
>>
>>FWIW - I think this should be registered as a bug, as Kevin Mentioned the
>>message signing breaks a few things that users consider normal email
>>features.
>>
>>         Items I'm aware of:
>>                         Outlook Read Reciepts
>>                         Outlook Meeting Requests
>>                         Outlook PDF attachments
>>
>>Being that Outlook is here to stay, I think that this is a reasonable bug
>>request.
>
>Can we produce a list of the MIME-types that MailScanner should not sign.
>At the moment it will sign any in-line text/* section. I can easily put in
>a little list of exceptions to catch things like text/pdf. What are the
>MIME types used by Outlook for these messages?
>
>It would be good to get this fixed before the next release, so the next
>release will have to wait until we get this resolved.

Or would I be better off only signing text/plain and text/html?
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