Thanks, Doug I quite understand your point of view and your reaction now. I am, for myself, very distrustful of such attachments and I must confess I often wait for a bolder person on the list to make some comments about an attachment before opening it myself; except when I know the sender very well. I have been using Netscape or sometimes Kmail since SuSE 6.2, without any problems. But my needs are very simple. Viruses are much more dangerous and numerous with M$ stuff. Maybe someone on the list could help you with your mail problems. Doug McGarrett a écrit :
All right, I will explain: Any attachment is liable to contain some kind of virus code. In the MS world, which many of us are using to some degree, such code will automatically load and go. I happen to be using Eudora, which doesn't do that, but many are not so cool. Also, when an attachment downloads to my d/l directory, someday I may say, "Gee, I wonder what that is," and run the file. Blooey! So I carefully track down and eradicate anything anyone puts as an attachment. Sure, I could filter attachments, but I am the editor of a small journal, and I get the raw files as attachments. So I can't filter out all attachments.
Why don't I use a Linux mail client? It's not working at the moment, I don't know why. In a bit, I will try ver 7.1 and see how it works. I'd just as soon use Linux, and I have some unhappiness with MS, but I'm not frothing at the mouth about MS. (Most of the time!) --doug
At 11:24 05/05/2001 +0200, you wrote:
James Oakley a écrit :
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...the moment of truth... or at least some semblance of it. :-)*
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I seem to agree with Dizzy, and was impressed by James's work, It's a stone in RH's garden and a praise to SuSE's journaling file system. So it's not quite OT. I found nothing dreadful in this document, but I'm not an expert, there might be something I did not see, I'd like Doug to explain. -- =========================================================================== Paul Ollion. ===========================================================================