Re: OE6 Msg. Source button reads text attachment

From: John Roth (johnroth@ameritech.net)
Date: 07/19/02 

From: "John Roth" <johnroth@ameritech.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 07:48:20 -0400

"Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@nospam.wta.att.ne.jp> wrote in message
news:ah8ph0$qs$2@newsflood.osaka.att.ne.jp...
> "John Roth" <johnroth@ameritech.net> wrote in message
> news:ujdej0go906aeb@news.supernews.com...
>
> > Actually, to put the source on disk, it's easier to just select the
message,
> > save as, and then rename it to .txt. That will give you the entire
message.
>
> Yes, that is true. I found that workaround after one of the times
that the
> message source button didn't provide a fully copyable message source.
>
> > Before doing this, make very certain you have the preview pane
turned
> > off, but then, you've already done that. Right?
>
> What difference does that make? Whether or not the preview pane is
on,
> saving the message and renaming it to .txt does yield the entire
message
> source.

If the preview pane is on, even a right click will cause IE to preview
the e-mail, causing any malicious code to execute.

> Also, whether or not the preview pane is on, saving the message and
keeping
> its original .eml extension and asking Norton to scan it always yields
an
> assertion that the file is clean. Norton doesn't understand the
format of
> e-mail messages with attachments. In order to get a scan, you have to
> either open the message anyway and save the attachment and scan that,
or
> save the attachment directly from the preview pane and scan it.

That's Norton's problem. AFIK, the version in the file is the correct
text, exactly as it came over the wire.

> But anyway, most of the spams that I got, even the ones that didn't
get
> copied correctly from the message source display, didn't have
attachments.

Spam's generally don't have attachments. Viruses and worms do.

John Roth
>