Re: [cobalt-users] Raq4 - NeoMail changes/ Minor bug ?

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Pro Properformance as wrote:
> 
> Have tested neomail pretty thouroughly today.  It's great.  Thanks Taco!!!

Hmm, just stuck it on a raq 2 to play, it is kinda neat,tho the install on
the raq2 botched 2 things slightly, it stopped the web server , presumably
to edit the config, but it didn't manage to start it up again, dunny why,
was nothing wrong...It also didn't manage to figure out how to mod the
ssl server config, tho that's also (to me ) minor, the raq2 has screwy ssl
anyhow, i'm used to hand hacking it  ;)

> One problem however is receiving attachments.  It seems that attachments
> viewable via a browser (i.e. .html .gif .jpg) are fine.  However if I get a
> pdf or Word doc then I have problems.  The browser prompts me to either 1.
> run from current location or 2. Save file to disk.  If I select "save to
> disk" then all it saves is a file called mail.html

This is not actually a problem with neomail, it's a problem with silly
outlook, it's generating a mime layer inside another mime layer, one for
the mail+html, and inside it, one with the file, what you are saving on
download is the body of the mail, which itself contains attachments (but
in this cas only one) so when you 'open' it, you are getting the inner
most attachment and then you can open/save it, this is kinda dangerous
btw, it's in a different windows insecurity zone after you save it to your
desktop than it was while you were downloading ;)

(The only reason it's not a problem for gif's etc is cause the browser
known how to unpack these types of attachments)

Not mailing as html will help a little=/

PS: i tried to send mail from the wrong domain, and it did not work on
this machine...it figured out which domain name went with the username
just fine....

gsh