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KMail with attachment to Outlook

Post by Mike Matti » Sun, 12 Nov 2000 04:00:00



I got a post yesterday from a friend with a .jpg attachment.  I do not have
printing setup on my Mandrake box so I forwarded the message to my wife's
ISP mailbox.  The first time it got there the .jpg was inline encoded with
base64 and Outlook just took it as text.  I then experimented with the
other options Kmail gives you (8bit and quoted text).  The 8bit encoding of
the .jpg got it there as a .jpg attachment to the message but the contents
were jipperish.  

Anyone have any ideas on what magical incantation is required to make this
work??

thanks

--
Mike Mattix

 
 
 
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KMail with attachment to Outlook

Post by Eric Laffoo » Mon, 13 Nov 2000 04:00:00



> I got a post yesterday from a friend with a .jpg attachment.  I do not
> have printing setup on my Mandrake box so I forwarded the message to my
> wife's
> ISP mailbox.  The first time it got there the .jpg was inline encoded with
> base64 and Outlook just took it as text.  I then experimented with the
> other options Kmail gives you (8bit and quoted text).  The 8bit encoding
> of the .jpg got it there as a .jpg attachment to the message but the
> contents were jipperish.

> Anyone have any ideas on what magical incantation is required to make this
> work??

> thanks

I would be more interested in how to get outlook to send emails without
it's default interneal mail attachement. Whenever my wife emails from work
it is there and any attachment she sends is garbaged. She as talked with
her tech support people and they don't know how to fix it alothough I know
for a fact it is a settings issue as I saw another company fix it.

I don't run MS Lookout or any other viruses here but one thing is for sure.
Outlook is a funky piece of shit!!!
--
Eric Laffoon
A member of the Quanta+ Web development team
http://quanta.sourceforge.net

 
 
 
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KMail with attachment to Outlook

Post by Mike Matti » Mon, 13 Nov 2000 04:00:00




> > I got a post yesterday from a friend with a .jpg attachment.  I do not
> > have printing setup on my Mandrake box so I forwarded the message to my
> > wife's
> > ISP mailbox.  The first time it got there the .jpg was inline encoded
> > with
> > base64 and Outlook just took it as text.  I then experimented with the
> > other options Kmail gives you (8bit and quoted text).  The 8bit encoding
> > of the .jpg got it there as a .jpg attachment to the message but the
> > contents were jipperish.

> > Anyone have any ideas on what magical incantation is required to make
> > this work??

> > thanks

> I would be more interested in how to get outlook to send emails without
> it's default interneal mail attachement. Whenever my wife emails from work
> it is there and any attachment she sends is garbaged. She as talked with
> her tech support people and they don't know how to fix it alothough I know
> for a fact it is a settings issue as I saw another company fix it.

> I don't run MS Lookout or any other viruses here but one thing is for
> sure. Outlook is a funky piece of shit!!!

Good point, I am pretty sure my friend still uses Outlook (he always has)
and his message came across fine just when I forward it on to my wife....

I will test the other way, maybe it will tell me what I need to know??

--
Mike Mattix

 
 
 
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1. So IE5/Outlook/Outlook Express will all execute attachments

Hi all,

I think this tops the buffer overflow in Outlook/Outlook Express where
arbitrary code can be run on an unpatched Windows machine just by sending
someone a plain text email.

This vulnerabilty is a right screwup. It allows someone to execute an
attachment on your Windows computer:

(a) just by visiting a site; or
(b) just by sending you an HTML email (that is automatically rendered
using IE5).

Unknown to me MS HTML emails are just in fact packaged web sites:

"Because HTML e-mails are simply web pages, IE can render them and open
binary attachments in a way that is appropriate to their MIME types."

Check it out:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp

This is a good example of how not to design a secure operating system. And
that's why statements such as "no operating system is secure" are
misleading. While none are prefectly secure there are degrees of security.
This demonstrates that Microsoft allowed people to email web sites to one
another and then thought about the security implications later.

Attachments execute as the email (i.e. web page/site) is "rendered".
Wonders never cease.

Regards,
Adam

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