Re: Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server.

From: Valeo de Vries
Date: Mon Aug 09 2010 - 18:12:46 EST


On 9 August 2010 22:56, Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/09/2010 02:28 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 21:15 +0300, Mihai DonÈu wrote:
>>>
>>> Wait. I don't think we're on the same page here. I'm talking about
>>> message
>>> signing (which does not require the receiving end to have any key - it's
>>> the
>>> same plain text e-mail with a blob after it) while you refer to actually
>>> encrypting the message. Mm? Or am I being extremely slow today? :-)
>>
>> Only when you assume that Exchange would pass signed messages without
>> corrupting them. It really is that broken.
>>
>
> figured the encryption would be kind of a last resort situation..but if it's
> that broken to where it wont pass it along without corrupting, then the best
> solution is to figure out what Microsoft needs in terms of encoding, i.e. is
> there a way to have the scanner scan but not throw everything around after
> it scans.(if this is what it's doing)

The link I posted earlier seems to give the impression that
quoted-printable might do that. I may have misread that, though...

Valeo
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