- Digest leaking email addresses

- Solun

- Spam Software

- Connecting to XP with PsiWin 2.3.3 and SP2 Upgrade for XP

- 1. Airport (Mac) v wi-fi; 2. S7 upgrade v memory

- Digest leaking email addresses AGAIN

- Re: Spam free for a leaner life

- battery life, symbian-viri, Psiloc Hebrew localization for UIQ,

- new Email Reply (indenting) macro

Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005
From: Digest administrator
Subject: Digest leaking email addresses

Hi all,
I beg your pardon for visible addresses, but I can't imagine, why this was happen.
I'm ever sending from my S5mxPro, using SmtpAuth. The HTML-version V2, which is created and sent simultaneously with the version 1, was sent without any visible addresses. ??!? 8o((

With best regards
Rolf Vonau
The Digest Team

Date: 4 Jan 2005 23:07:24 +0100
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: Solun

I've got Solun 5.2 on my 5mx and understand that the highest version is 5.43.

But www.piecafe.demon.co.uk is not active anymore.

Any suggestions?

--
Alan R Morris, G4ENS.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Using a Psion netBook & Nokia 6210e.

Date: 5 Jan 2005 02:56:37 +0100
From: g y reyes <address truncated>
Subject: Spam Software

Date:  4 Jan 2005 17:38:00 +0100
From: M. Garrett <address truncated>
Subject: Spam free for a leaner life

The problem with a lot of spam software, sometimes legitimate messages get treated as spam and blocked.

One of the best I heard about from an IT Manager was spam software that asks you to register legitimate email addresses.  Once it encounters a new email address, it sends out a prompt allowing the user to confirm acceptance of the email address.  All unaccepted are treated as spam.

This friend brought his spam rate down to practically zero from thousands a day with no loss of legitimate messages.

Gary

Date: 5 Jan 2005 05:51:12 +0100
From: Melvin Woody <address truncated>
Subject: Connecting to XP with PsiWin 2.3.3 and SP2 Upgrade for XP

Itamar wrote:

> Answer to: Melvin Woody
>
> Re.: Connecting to XP with PsiWin 2.3.3 - I am not sure whether there > is a sgnificant difference with laptops but I connect my mBook at
> home with Windows XP and in the office with Windows XP Pro without
> any problems. Sometimes it helps to totally uninstall Psiwin and than > re-install it again from scratch.


I tried that.  I have XP Pro on my laptop.  But I uninstalled PsiWin and reinstalled.  Then I tried to connect with both my Diamond Mako and my Mbook - all to no avail.
   In the midst, Windows wanted to send an error report and upon doing so, wanted to install System Pack 2.  It tells me this once a day.  But
I seem to recall that SP2 causes a variety or problems - and I can't recall whether any of them have to do with connecting Psions through PsiWin.  Does anyone know whether there's a good reason to stall about instlling SP2?  I searched the archive on XP a few days ago - but didn't discover what I was searching for. Can anyone advise me about this?  It seems extremely odd that I can't connect with either of my Psion machines.

Melvin Woody

Date: 5 Jan 2005 08:33:55 +0100
From: Bruce A.Knox <address truncated>
Subject: 1. Airport (Mac) v wi-fi; 2. S7 upgrade v memory

TO all:

1. I have installed an Apple Airport (standard) card in my eMac; I can't work out how to make it talk to my mBook with the Cisco wi-fi card.  Can anyone help? I have an idea that someone, quite a while ago, had some experience of Mac-Psion via wi-fi.

2. Re: recent news of easy conversion of S7 to NetBook: Would that conversion write off a 16MB memory expansion in the S7? (I suspect that it would.)

Any replies much appreciated.

Bruce Knox

PS.  I'm sorry that Owen must (as it seems) leave the Digest; I'll rather miss his TsFTD and his navigational information (!).

Date: 5 Jan 2005 11:14:25 +0100
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: Digest leaking email addresses AGAIN

Hi

I don't mean any disrespect, but how is it possible for the Digest to leak email addresses AGAIN, when the subject should still be in everyone's mind due to the recent discussions?

Presumably this has happened the Psion Email's BCC bug?  But surely Email will have been configured to use SmtpAuth, as so won't work if someone forgets to run SmtpAuth?

I am going to have to consider asking the Digest to be sent to my 'disposable' email address :-(

---
Chris Handley

Date: 5 Jan 2005 11:14:34 +0100
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: Re: Spam free for a leaner life

M. Garrett wrote:
> I've had the same email address since about 1995 and have
> felt no need to change it. I get no spam at all into my
> account.
>
> Do I have an effective anti-spam system in place?
>
> Nope - I have no anti-spam software whatsoever installed on
> either of my two laptops, netBook or 5MX.

I was going to count this as a piece of evidence against spam due to the Digest, but you then go on to say:


> I do, however, have an account with Virgin.net who introduced
> their own anti-spamming software and virus checking on their
> mail server.

I'm afraid that this is, if anything, WORSE than using spam deletion software on your own computer - because you have no chance of knowing if any spam has been found/deleted, or of configuring spam detection, and it could even be deleting non-spam emails that just happen to upset their spam detection system (even bayesean filters can be completely wrong sometimes).

Three asides:  Sometimes you can ask your ISP to disable the spam system for your address (thankfully I was able to do this for my ISP).  Sometimes it is possible to view the spam via a web interface, but realistically how many people are going to bother doing that regularly?  If the ISP's system just marks an email as probably spam, rather than deleting it, then I think it is a Good Thing.


> If Virgin can do it successfully then why can't all other
> ISP's?

Unfortunately (from my POV) many ISPs *are* implementing anti-spam systems; it is a good selling point, as long as they don't mention the down sides.

---
Chris Handley

P.S.  I know most people will have a radically different opinion to me, so I suggest that any replies are kept short, as there are likely to be rather a lot of them ;-)

Date: 5 Jan 2005 13:29:04 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: battery life, symbian-viri, Psiloc Hebrew localization for UIQ,

Answer to: unzip (interesting name <G>)

Re.: battery life - I am not looking for a laptop or battery life, we were just discussing the comparison between a netBook/mBook/5MX and laptops in general. Someone wrote about laptops having 1 to 2 hours battery life only and I countered that I see people in airplanes ... etc. i am still smiling when I happily use my mBook on the small tables of an airplane and people wiht laptops struggling somewhat to balance their machines on these table without disturbing their neighbours <G>.

Answer to: Vlad A

Re.: symbian-viri - Thanks for these details. I had a closer look at these websites and the situation is not that worrisome as yet. First of all they "work" only on Symbian 60 phones, so the UIQ and 80/90 models are still safe. I suppose the Symbian 60 phones are the majority of symbian phones and therefore more "worthwhile" to write virusses for. Secondly, the virus sens a .SIS file to the phone and you have to activate this .sis file in order for the virus to spread. Another condition is that you must have set your bluetooth connectivity to "discoverable" mode. Surely we Digest readers realise never to activate a .sis file if you don't know where it came from ?!    Anyhow, the .sis file is called something like "Cabire Security Manager Utility" so stay clear of this file.

Answer to: Arabbitte

Re.: Psiloc Hebrew localization for UIQ - Thanks for that, Alan. I had noticed it as well as I follow "my-symbian" almost daily for updates. I downloaded it but have as yet not tried it out.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 5 Jan 2005 22:55:25 +0100
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: new Email Reply (indenting) macro

I am pleased to announce that about a year after the "final" release, my macro has been greatly improved (partly thanks to Andrew Flegg).  You can download it from here:
http://cshandley.web.users.btopenworld.com/Email_Reply.zip

A summary of it's features:
* Semi-automatic installation by an SIS file.
* Easily indent an entire email, or just a part of it.
* Parsing of both Email AND Digest headers, so that it will say who originally wrote the text (and optionally the date).
* Appending of optional signature text.


Thus an email that originally looked something like:

_________ Reply Header ___________
Subject: Something exciting
Author: Some guy <address truncated>
Date:  Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:20:37 +0000

Hello you mug,
What are you doing?


Would be replaced by something like this:

Some guy wrote:
> Hello you mug,
> What are you doing?

Regards,
Me


BTW, Andrew Flegg originally wrote the header parsing & signature appending, but I then got interested enough to rework to be more flexible.
---
Chris Handley