How-do-you-do,

Steve Lamb @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

SL> There are few possible troubles:

Yes, I too emailed RIT when I noticed this 'hole' right after I first
registered TB!. The email and reply are below:

>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>Hash: SHA1
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>Hello The Bat! developers,
>
>     I am a bit disturbed about a specific 'feature' of The Bat!. I
>was wondering  whether  there  was  some  way to prevent the 'Kludges'
>from displaying  the  path  to  my  mailbox?  I  ALWAYS keep my mailbox
>path private for obvious security reasons. But low and behold, I find that
>I am now inadvertently emailing it to all and sundry. Eg below:
>
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------12111C10A12B2B883"
>X-BAT-FILES-SUBST: "block.jpg"@"C:\\Post Office\\Email\\Simon
>(F9)\\Attach\\block9.jpg";
>X-BAT-FILES: C:\Post Office\Email\Simon (F9)\Attach\block9.jpg
>
>Surely this is a bit of a security issue is it not? Can you advise?
>
>Regards,
>  Simon
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply:

>>Hello Simon,
>>
>>S> I am a bit disturbed about a specific 'feature' of The Bat!. I was
>>S> wondering whether there was some way to prevent the 'Kludges' from
>>S> displaying the path to my mailbox?
>>
>>You can keep files in message bodies, but this can be the cause of
>>crashes/slowdowns when it comes to large attachments.
>>
>>We will change it to something more convenient in the next version
>>because this "feature" causes losing attachment when the account's
>>home directory is changed...
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>Sincerely,
>> Stefan                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Slan, 

 Simon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]                         



Usin' TB! v1.41 B3

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