Hello Dominik, hello Raymond, hello list I know that's a SuSE/Linux mailinglist but some people(I also) using other mailclients like Outlook [don't flame me ;)] which do not support your secured messages. However, I can not read your message and therefore i can't help you. Best regards... Mario
Hi Mario,
I know that's a SuSE/Linux mailinglist but some people(I also) using other mailclients like Outlook [don't flame me ;)] which do not support your secured messages. However, I can not read your message and therefore i can't help you.
--> The messages are not encrypted. Some of them are digitally signed. In this case, you should see a strange looking signature in the end of the email or as an attachment. Some are in another character set (iso-8859-2). Maybe this is causing trouble for you ? Have you "Pan-European language support for IE/OE" installed ? Regards, Armin -- Am Hasenberg 26 office: Institut für Atmosphärenphysik D-18209 Bad Doberan Schloss-Straße 6 Tel. ++49-(0)38203/42137 D-18225 Kühlungsborn / GERMANY Email: schoech@iap-kborn.de Tel. +49-(0)38293-68-102 WWW: http://armins.cjb.net/ Fax. +49-(0)38293-68-50
Hi Armin, thanks for your RE. I don't see any strange looking signatures and the messages have no attachment. When I try to see the messageheader RMOUSE->PROPERTIES, an error with this message is shown: "Error in security system". Why should I install "Pan-European language support"? I think this list is in english and I use US-ASCII character encoding. My english is not the best but I try it. I could use some features with Outlook and I could write my messages in HTML but I respect other clients like pine or the simple mail command. So I expect this from other. This is a security-list not a secret list. Security interests me, but I am not paranoid. My question: Does this signing of a messages play a role for others here in the list? Bye Mario
-----Original Message----- From: Armin Schoech [mailto:schoech@iap-kborn.de] Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 4:35 PM To: Mario Neubert Cc: suse-security@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-security] Re:[suse-security] SuSEFirewall without NAT
Hi Mario,
I know that's a SuSE/Linux mailinglist but some people(I also) using other mailclients like Outlook [don't flame me ;)] which do not support your secured messages. However, I can not read your message and therefore i can't help you.
--> The messages are not encrypted. Some of them are digitally signed. In this case, you should see a strange looking signature in the end of the email or as an attachment. Some are in another character set (iso-8859-2). Maybe this is causing trouble for you ? Have you "Pan-European language support for IE/OE" installed ?
Regards, Armin
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On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 22:30, Mario Neubert wrote:
This is a security-list not a secret list. Security interests me, but I am not paranoid. My question: Does this signing of a messages play a role for others here in the list?
Well, signing's just a helpful way of verifying the sender of a message is who they say they are. It's quite strange that Outlook (Was it outlook you were using?) doesn't read the signed messages. I seem to remember it coping quite happily when I used to use it. If you'd installed a PGP tool and its Outlook plug-in, it would verify the signature for you, if not, then the signature would just appear as it does in plain text, just like happens in KMail, which I'm using now... I mean, the messages themselves are still in plain text, and if a mail client can't read them, there must be something very wrong with it. Have you installed PGP or anything similar? Or does Outlook do PGP itself these days? Might be worth trying a re-install of Outlook... I'll rarely double-check a signature unless it's on something like a security announcement, or if there's already some doubt about the sender, but I have no objections to seeing them. It seems more appropriate on a security list. M -- "It's the small gaps between the rain that count, and learning how to live amongst them." -- Jeff Noon
Hi Matt Gibson, I set the thread to OT because the thread currently is not talking about nat.
anything similar? Or does Outlook do PGP itself these days? Might be worth trying a re-install of Outlook...
I've never heard that Outlook is able to handle pgp properly. Every mail that is sent out should be plaintext. Plaintext because there are some using MUAs like elm or pine that understoud no html and pgp. The other is you can catch viruses and trojans by using html and you grow up the size of mails. What you can do it by writing a perl-script that cuts of the pgp-part and you can combine the script by zipping html-parts and tofus. Regards, Ruprecht ---------------------------------- Ruprecht Helms IT-Service und Softwareentwicklung Tel/Fax.: +49[0]7621 16 99 16 Homepage: http://www.rheyn.de email: info@rheyn.de ----------------------------------
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