AT command error.

• Messages sorted by:[ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]

Hi,

Marc Eberhard wrote:
> I'm really upset by those stupid users of Windows software blaming me to
> send out attachements. I don't know, why those mailers claim, that pgp
> signed _plain_ _ascii_ _text_ _mails_ are attachements. Have a look at the
> mails and throw away your mailer. It's your fault, not mine. I'm sending
> this mail without signing it, so that you will be able to read it even with
> your broken software, but I will continue to sign my mails. Fix your mailer
> and stop telling me this bull shit!
> 
> Canary, Robert W. wrote:
> > X-Mailer:  Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version
> > 4.0.995.52 Encoding: 21 TEXT

I'm not sure about Exchange, but I can for sure that "Eudora for Windows"
cannot handle PGP-signed mails. 

Instead it will display them as "this mail has only one attachment", and
the attachment cannot be displayed.

[As for "Exchange":  I recently heard the saying that 'printing out e-mail
and sending them as paper air-plane is a more reliable mail transport than
using MS exchange'... :-) ]


While I find PGP mails somewhat annoying myself (ELM is not handling them
seamlessly enough), using PGP is VERY important, and can only be encouraged!

Remember, Marc and I often send suggestions to the list "do this, do
that".  What would happen if someone sends a faked e-mail from Marc's or
my e-mail address, telling you "the cure to all problems is 'rm -rf /'"?

If you have a PGP signature on the mail, you can be sure that the mail is
not authentic!

gert

PS: Marc, calm down... just tell people that they should complain to their
vendor, and then change products.  For example, AFAIK, Netscape mail doesn't
know what PGP is, but will silently ignore it, instead of corrupting
everything... - the art of defensive programming.  Unheard of in the
Windows world.

-- 
USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
                                                           //www.muc.de/~gert/
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@greenie.muc.de
fax: +49-89-35655025                        gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de