4.50.9: winmail.dat rejections

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Julian,
> 
> It has been pointed out to me by an Outlook user that the
> new message in filename.rules.conf is misleading:
> 
> deny    winmail\.dat$       Windows security 
> vulnerability                          No Outlook Rich Text Format 
> messages due to security hole, use HTML instead
> 
> That it should say:
> 
> deny    winmail\.dat$       Windows security 
> vulnerability                          No Outlook Rich Text Format 
> messages due to security hole, use plain-text instead
> 
> My reading of a couple of googled pages on "winmail.dat problem"
> implies that selecting HTML mail will generate a winmail.dat
> file anyway.
> 
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
Only in some outlook incarnations. Depends on several factors, including 
whether or not M-Sexchange compatibility is installed, or if there's an 
M-Sexchange server in the middle, etc.

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Alex Neuman van der Hans
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