Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-10-03 Thread NetVicious
martes, 28 sep 2010 at 02:49, it seems you wrote: if you can't see the difference, I'm not sure I could explain it. Yes, I can see the difference. If you look at the last lines of my email I want this options to be added to The Bat! directly. I was only saying we could do it with macros

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-30 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Vili, Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 7:40:28 PM, you wrote: By default, the user is not allowed to run files with exe, pif, etc. extensions. But he has the right to modify that list in the Settings. Do you recommend a somewhat deeply buried option in the settings to allow bad

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-30 Thread Vili
 By default, the user is not allowed to run files with exe, pif, etc. extensions. But he has the right to modify that list in the Settings. Do  you  recommend  a somewhat deeply buried option in the settings to allow bad certificates? Yes. Does not have to be deeply buried, should be in the

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-30 Thread Dierk Haasis
Hello Vili! On Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 3:31:13 PM you wrote: Yes. Does not have to be deeply buried, should be in the Settings somewhere. Don't make it such a permanent setting. It makes a lot more sense to have it as an option on the warning dialogue with a checkmark and OK button.

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-30 Thread Adrian
It shouldn't be in the settings but a prompt when the connection is made. Simply prompt if one wants to accept the certificate or not. If you want a setting, just make one where you can choose the default action (only prompt/reject, not accept so people don't auto-accept all invalid certs).  By

Re[2]: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-30 Thread Paul Van Noord
9/30/2010 9:47 AM Hi Vili, On 9/30/2010 Vili wrote: V Yes. Does not have to be deeply buried, should be in the Settings V somewhere. If the certificate is bad, and the use of bad certificates V are disabled, with a warning window point him where he can change V that. Of course, by default,

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-30 Thread Julian Beach (Lists)
On Thursday, September 30, 2010, 2:31:13 PM, Vili wrote: If the certificate is bad, and the use of bad certificates are disabled, with a warning window point him where he can change that. Of course, by default, should not allow bad certificates. Also, even if the user enable the use of bad

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-30 Thread Vili
By default, the user is not allowed to run files with exe, pif, etc. extensions. But he has the right to modify that list in the Settings. Do you recommend a somewhat deeply buried option in the settings to allow bad certificates? Yes. Does not have to be deeply buried, should be in the

Re[2]: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-30 Thread Paul Van Noord
9/30/2010 10:48 AM Hi Dierk, On 9/30/2010 Dierk Haasis wrote: Yes. Does not have to be deeply buried, should be in the Settings somewhere. DH Don't make it such a permanent setting. It makes a lot more sense to DH have it as an option on the warning dialogue with a checkmark and OK DH

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-30 Thread Jens Franik
Am 30.09.2010 15:12, schrieb Maxim Masiutin: By default, the user is not allowed to run files with exe, pif, etc. extensions. But he has the right to modify that list in the Settings. Do you recommend a somewhat deeply buried option in the settings to allow bad certificates? Make an

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-30 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Maxim, On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:09:36 +0300 GMT (29/Sep/10, 22:09 PM +0700 GMT), Maxim Masiutin wrote: MM You can use stunnel (www.stunnel.org) to send your message. Of course I won't do suich a thing. I want an email client with which I can send messages without having to install second

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-30 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Thursday, September 30, 2010, 15:34:25, Adrian wrote: It shouldn't be in the settings but a prompt when the connection is made. Simply prompt if one wants to accept the certificate or not. If you want a setting, just make one where you can choose the default action (only prompt/reject, not

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-30 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Jernej, On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:10:19 +0200 GMT (01/Oct/10, 1:10 AM +0700 GMT), Jernej Simončič wrote: It shouldn't be in the settings but a prompt when the connection is made. Simply prompt if one wants to accept the certificate or not. If you want a setting, just make one where you can

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-30 Thread Rick
Hello Jernej, On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:10:19 +0200 GMT (01/Oct/10, 1:10 AM +0700 GMT), Jernej Simončič wrote: It shouldn't be in the settings but a prompt when the connection is made. Simply prompt if one wants to accept the certificate or not. If you want a setting, just make one where you

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-29 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Thomas, You can use stunnel (www.stunnel.org) to send your message. Stunnel ingores the errors, while you send to stunnel via regular connection. A sophisticated user will send via stunnel without a problem. For the user who is unaware about these matters and is unable to configure

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-29 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi Maxim, That's why our core users value us: the system administrators put The Bat! to their users and can sleep well. The users won't send a message to a compromised servers. This is the unique trait of The Bat! and we don't want to loose this niche. What you describe should be achieved

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-29 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Monday, September 27, 2010, 18:17:05, Vilius Šumskas wrote: Bad cert is not The Bat!'s fault. And providing an option to bypass that, is a security risk as explained numerious times on this list. Yes, because you can always trust those signed certificates. -- Jernej Simončič

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-29 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Alto, Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 6:32:58 PM, you wrote: What you describe should be achieved using a management tool like Windows Group Policy. Thank you very much for the idea, we will consider implementing it. -- Best regards, Maxim

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-29 Thread Vili
probably compromised) SSL servers. That's why our core users value us: the  system  administrators  put The Bat! to their users and can sleep well. The users won't send a message to a compromised servers. This is the unique trait of The Bat! and we don't want to loose this niche. Before any

Re[2]: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-29 Thread Paul Van Noord
9/29/2010 6:13 PM Hi Vili, On 9/29/2010 Vili wrote: probably compromised) SSL servers. That's why our core users value us: the  system  administrators  put The Bat! to their users and can sleep well. The users won't send a message to a compromised servers. This is the unique trait of The

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-28 Thread Jens Franik
Am 27.09.2010 17:59, schrieb Marek Mikus: This will not help you actually, but i recognized, that they have been working on this, because Bugtracker Entry gave me Feedback about Status Change... nobody is working on this, report was closed prior to writing some comment, i shut up

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-28 Thread Jens Franik
Am 28.09.2010 04:06, schrieb Thomas Fernandez: Yeah, I don't want an email client that looks out for me, I want an email client that I can control. And to get back on topic, i would like my Mailclient to offer me the choose (to be intelligent) to accept a security risk for xyz days, months.

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-28 Thread Vili
Yeah, I don't want an email client that looks out for me, I want an email client that I can control. And to get back on topic, i would like my Mailclient to offer me the choose (to be intelligent) to accept a security risk for xyz days, months. Even if the Certificate is outdated. I agree

User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Tbbeta, When trying to send mail to a server with an expired Cert Mail send fails with no explanation: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=6856 Quote: The Bat! gives the explanation in the account log, but we won't make an option to bypass this error. No way to send an email with TB!

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Rick
The Bat! gives the explanation in the account log, but we won't make an option to bypass this error. No way to send an email with TB! if the sysad at the other end is a dimwit. Good night then. I am actually quite taken aback by this unexpected reply. I have absolutely no understanding for

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Jens Franik
Am 27.09.2010 17:10, schrieb Thomas Fernandez: When trying to send mail to a server with an expired Cert Mail send fails with no explanation:https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=6856 This will not help you actually, but i recognized, that they have been working on this, because Bugtracker

Re[2]: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Monday, September 27, 2010, Jens Franik wrote: This will not help you actually, but i recognized, that they have been working on this, because Bugtracker Entry gave me Feedback about Status Change... nobody is working on this, report was closed -- Bye Marek Mikus Czech

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Vilius Šumskas
Sveiki, Monday, September 27, 2010, 6:10:47 PM, you wrote: Hello Tbbeta, When trying to send mail to a server with an expired Cert Mail send fails with no explanation: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=6856 Quote: The Bat! gives the explanation in the account log, but we won't make

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Dierk Haasis
Hello Vilius! On Monday, September 27, 2010 at 6:17:05 PM you wrote: You can always choose a company with does provide services as they are supposed to be served. Yeah, especially when your reliable service just once hiccups for a few days ... Bad cert is not The Bat!'s fault. And

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Vilius, On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:17:05 +0300 GMT (27/Sep/10, 23:17 PM +0700 GMT), Vilius Šumskas wrote: I am actually quite taken aback by this unexpected reply. I have absolutely no understanding for this policy which will certainly hurt my company. If I cannot send a mail to my customer

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Vili
VŠ Bad  cert  is  not The Bat!'s fault. And providing an option to bypass VŠ that, is a security risk as explained numerious times on this list. Right. So I'll lose the customer because TB! doesn't allow me to override the security issue. You must be quite unaware of business reality to say

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Dwight Corrin
On Monday, September 27, 2010, 12:50:28 PM, Vili wrote: I totally agree with Thomas. TB is not user friendly when reporting errors, warnings. The error should be put into the face of the user, suggest him a solution and allow him to bypass this kind of certificate security issues if he

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Rick
You have to remember that theBAT is always looking out for us. I see this issue as very similar to the refusal to enable inserting notes or other useful information into the body of messages in your data base, or doing things like removing '[SPAM]' from headers for some imagined reason of

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Guten Morgen, TF The Bat! gives the explanation in the account log, but we won't make TF an option to bypass this error. TF I am actually quite taken aback by this unexpected reply. I have TF absolutely no understanding for this policy which will certainly hurt TF my company. Actually, it's

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Dwight Corrin
On Monday, September 27, 2010, 3:25:31 PM, Rick wrote: You have to remember that theBAT is always looking out for us. I see this issue as very similar to the refusal to enable inserting notes or other useful information into the body of messages in your data base, or doing things like

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread NetVicious
lunes, 27 sep 2010 at 22:07, it seems you wrote: I see this issue as very similar to the refusal to enable inserting notes or other useful information into the body of messages in your data base, or doing things like removing '[SPAM]' from headers for some imagined reason of morality.

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Dwight Corrin
On Monday, September 27, 2010, 7:04:13 PM, NetVicious wrote: What's the problem with It. I can export the mail and modify it and later import it to The Bat!. I have the same result. What's the diference if you can't see the difference, I'm not sure I could explain it. --

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Rick
lunes, 27 sep 2010 at 22:07, it seems you wrote: I see this issue as very similar to the refusal to enable inserting notes or other useful information into the body of messages in your data base, or doing things like removing '[SPAM]' from headers for some imagined reason of morality.

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Dwight, On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:07:11 -0500 GMT (28/Sep/10, 3:07 AM +0700 GMT), Dwight Corrin wrote: I totally agree with Thomas. TB is not user friendly when reporting errors, warnings. The error should be put into the face of the user, suggest him a solution and allow him to bypass

Re: User-unfriendliness

2010-09-27 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Vili, On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:50:28 -0400 GMT (28/Sep/10, 0:50 AM +0700 GMT), Vili wrote: VŠ Bad  cert  is  not The Bat!'s fault. And providing an option to bypass VŠ that, is a security risk as explained numerious times on this list. Right. So I'll lose the customer because TB!