On Tue Apr 5 16:36:40 BST 2016, I wrote:
Also, I was e-mailed in private by member "d4x"
(who has trouble sending e-mails directly to the list)
Hi - it has since emerged that GiP user "d4x"
employs Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931
as his e-mail client, which is the built-in e-mail
client of Windows XP.
"d4x" had recently another Windows XP related
issue that was posted on the support forum:
https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/thread-686-post-3740.html
and was quickly acted upon by dinkypumpkin,
but it appears his EOL'd OS is causing him
extra grief when trying to subscribe/post to this
very list.
Registration/Subscription appears successful,
but no confirmation e-mail is received, nor any
other list traffic.
Trying to post directly to the list (in plain-text
format) results in an immediate bounce by the list.
I was intrigued by his issue so today I brought
my WinXP (SP2) desktop out of retirement (been there
since November 2015) and did some tests:
When I myself tried to post to the list using MSOE 6.00,
the test mail instantly bounced back:
Your mail to 'get_iplayer' with the subject
Re: Total failure for tv this morning - 9.30am BST
Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
The reason it is being held:
Message has a suspicious header
Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel
this posting, please visit the following URL:
I have advised "d4x" to try third party mail clients
on XP to see if that fixes his issue, have yet to hear
back.
I recall some list members are still on XP - can any of
you replicate reported issue?
Since the deprecation of SHA-1 Hashing Algorithm by
Microsoft on Jan 1st 2016, I now find many SSL (https)
URLs simply won't load in XP's IE8, the same goes for
other functions using OS modules to access the net - I
believe this is the reason behind d4x's "zeranoe" issue...
To all list members: Please refrain from the obvious
suggestion d4x should either upgrade to a MS supported
Windows version or change to an Open Source OS;
this is not the intent of my post!
To the list maintainer (David Woodhouse):
Have you purposely blocked traffic originating from
MSOE 6.00 / WinXP as being an insecure client/OS?
Many thanks for any additional detail/insight on this...
Kind regards,
Vangelis.
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