Odd issue with a few mailing lists..

[Evan Platt <ev...@espphotography.com>]

I only seem to have this problem on this list and the mrtg lists... however 
a number of messages come with attachments.  Looking at them, they appear 
to generally be PGP keys.  Not a major issue, but now I have dozens of them 
(well, more).

Not to pick on people, but just in the last few days, I see it from Theo 
Van Dinter, Michael Parker, Thomas Bolioli, and that seems to be it for the 
past week or so.

I'm using Eudora Windows 6.2.1.2. Any way to turn this off? The entire 
contents of the attached file appear as below: (This from Theo)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFCE8iE0n2PaNPSwnMRAuOTAKCXsRD0TxFAFaj3+I4dx45u8RY92gCgtOI5
qiTu8706EiipoyH+Rx5SXOU=
=Xdgp
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


As a test, I e-mailed myself the contents of the attached file, and it did 
not convert it to an attachment.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Evan

Re: Odd issue with a few mailing lists..

[Evan Platt <ev...@espphotography.com>]

At 02:53 PM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
>Note: I use Eudora.
>
>Unfortunately, this is a design "feature" of Eudora.. It always extracts 
>attachments, and has to, as it does not support leaving them in the 
>message mailbox. This has lead to numerous security exploits against 
>eudora in the past. Since the attachment extraction happens automatically 
>when the message is downloaded, malicious encodings get decoded 
>automatically...
>
>Your best bet is in Eudora options, under attachments, enable the "delete 
>attachments when emptying trash". This will make eudora clean up a 
>messages attachments when you empty it out of your trash.. Not perfect, 
>and you have to make sure to save attachments you want keep, but it's 
>helpful and automated.

But it will only delete the attachment if I delete the message, correct? So 
if I keep a message, it keeps the attachment. Delete the message, 
attachment goes with it?

>You might also consider enabling 'put text attachments in body of 
>message'... but that's a bit problematic if you really want a text 
>attachment to be saved separately..

I think that's a better idea for now. :)

Thanks..

Evan 

Re: Odd issue with a few mailing lists..

[Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>]

At 05:35 PM 2/16/2005, Evan Platt wrote:
>I only seem to have this problem on this list and the mrtg lists... 
>however a number of messages come with attachments.  Looking at them, they 
>appear to generally be PGP keys.  Not a major issue, but now I have dozens 
>of them (well, more).
>
>Not to pick on people, but just in the last few days, I see it from Theo 
>Van Dinter, Michael Parker, Thomas Bolioli, and that seems to be it for 
>the past week or so.
>
>I'm using Eudora Windows 6.2.1.2. Any way to turn this off?

Note: I use Eudora.

Unfortunately, this is a design "feature" of Eudora.. It always extracts 
attachments, and has to, as it does not support leaving them in the message 
mailbox. This has lead to numerous security exploits against eudora in the 
past. Since the attachment extraction happens automatically when the 
message is downloaded, malicious encodings get decoded automatically...

Your best bet is in Eudora options, under attachments, enable the "delete 
attachments when emptying trash". This will make eudora clean up a messages 
attachments when you empty it out of your trash.. Not perfect, and you have 
to make sure to save attachments you want keep, but it's helpful and automated.

You might also consider enabling 'put text attachments in body of 
message'... but that's a bit problematic if you really want a text 
attachment to be saved separately..

Re: Odd issue with a few mailing lists..

[Thomas Bolioli <tp...@terranovum.com>]

They're S/MIME digital signatures. Eudora has a habit of automatically 
extracting (and severing) attachments and plopping them on the drive 
somewhere of the user's choosing, providing a link to it in the email. 
Most of us use clients that behave radically different. Eudora should 
probably not extract attachments at all or be more selective in what it 
extracts. Note: I am not trashing Eudora, I used if for 6+ years on both 
Windoze and Mac. Just that one thing always got to me. I wish they would 
make an option to turn off that behavior since the attachments can 
easily get lost and unlinked from the original email. Like when I moved 
to Apple Mail, I have thousands of emails missing the attachments...
Tom


Evan Platt wrote:

> I only seem to have this problem on this list and the mrtg lists... 
> however a number of messages come with attachments.  Looking at them, 
> they appear to generally be PGP keys.  Not a major issue, but now I 
> have dozens of them (well, more).
>
> Not to pick on people, but just in the last few days, I see it from 
> Theo Van Dinter, Michael Parker, Thomas Bolioli, and that seems to be 
> it for the past week or so.
>
> I'm using Eudora Windows 6.2.1.2. Any way to turn this off? The entire 
> contents of the attached file appear as below: (This from Theo)
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQFCE8iE0n2PaNPSwnMRAuOTAKCXsRD0TxFAFaj3+I4dx45u8RY92gCgtOI5
> qiTu8706EiipoyH+Rx5SXOU=
> =Xdgp
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>
> As a test, I e-mailed myself the contents of the attached file, and it 
> did not convert it to an attachment.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Evan