Re: [exim] "Vista Mail" and errors after DATA

On 7/18/07 7:01 AM, "Adam D. Barratt" <exim-users@???>
wrote:

> In our exim configuration we use the MIME ACL to refuse mail containing
> attachments with specific extensions, which has been working happily for
> some time. Unfortunately, we've now run across a problem with this technique
> when "Vista Mail" (Windows Vista's replacement for Outlook Express) is being
> used as the MUA for a local client.

You've found a solution (which I've filed away for consideration).

The good and bad news is that the mail program which comes with Vista will
have a short lifespan--there is already a beta of "Microsoft Live Mail"
which is the intended replacement for both the mail program in Vista and for
Outlook Express.

Rather nicer than the warmed over Outlook Express (fortunately fixed with
regard to TLS) that comes with Vista. It works for me, but I'm only using
it on the little-used Vista machine, and not for one of our accounts. (I
should fix that last--although I think I exercised it with our servers
briefly early on.)

I won't suggest you suggest it to your boss, but you might want to kick the
tires for yourself. Last I heard, we should be only a month or two from the
final version.

(A replacement for Outlook Express won't help us for a decade or so--our
support folks had an encounter with OE 4 earlier this week.)

--John