On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 14:03, Tolkin, Steve wrote: > I have exactly the same symptoms as Philipp Hanes > (needing to open two layers before reaching the actual mail from Sean > Quinlan)
Again, I'm sorry this is the case in your situation. And please don't take this personally, but I'd prefer to do what I think is the right thing by default, and regret the inconvenience this sometimes causes a few, rather than stop using encryption because MS software doesn't handle it gracefully. > I too am running Outlook. > I did not choose it, my employer did. > I have no ability or interest in getting at the Exchange servers > directly. > > I think if I forward these message to my home account I > may not do any better -- won't the damage have been done already? > Or is the problem in the Outlook client but not the Exchange Server? > > But forwarding mail home does not help, as I mostly read it at work. Is there a way you could read it from both? > And the PGP signature does not help much, because > I do not have an easy way to validate that this is good. It's actually a gpg signature, but they are approximately equivalent from a basic usage standpoint. Does Outlook have any support for pgp, which has both commercial and (IIRC) free windows versions? If not, you _should_ (it's been many years since I used pgp and Eudora) be able to install it on your MS box, save signed emails, and use the pgp tools to verify emails outside of the mail client. > The best part about seeing them is that I am yet heard > of a virus that puts a dummy PGP block into the email -- > but it would be easy enough to do. Certainly it would be. So unless the signiture is validated it's not worth too much. > Is there an automated way to use this block to check all email > before opening it? Yes. I know Eudora supported encryption years ago (as mentioned above), and I've been told Thunderbird handles encryption well. Evolution will handle it automatically if the sig is attached - if it's inline I have to check it myself (which I only bother to do if there are attachments or I'm suspicious of the emails origin for some other reason). > Using Outlook client would be best > but I would like to learn more about > the benefits of using another client if it is easy and provides > more security. I'll leave it to other who can make recommendations based on current experience. -- Sean Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
