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Re: Netscape mail reader oddity
From: "Silvio L. Nisgoski" <nisgoski () softone com br>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:22:40 -0200
Hi, Yes, here it occurs also. Just select a message with attachments, and click around the top right corner. [] Silvio Mikael Olsson wrote:
Hi, I've seen something _really_ weird with the netscape mail reader, and I wonder if anyone else has seen it. A couple of times, I've managed to completely alter the message display in the mail reader, by clicking around and selecting text in the message (I do this all the time when I read texts, don't ask me why). All of a sudden, the message display changed to something that... Well, I don't really know. It looked like the old Internet Mail&News display, with the text covering the top 80% of the message display, and a list of icons for the attachments at the bottom 20%, in its own frame. (By the way, I only have IE3 installed on my computers; I never use IE so I haven't bothered to upgrade, for several reasons). Either there is a feature in Netscape that I don't know of, but the more likely explanation is that all of a sudden, netscape decided to hand the mime message over to the Windows OLE host or something like that, which ended up displaying it in Internet Mail&News instead. Now, why I am posting this to vuln-dev? At least in my case, there is a huge difference in how mail is handled by my netscape installation and "internet mail&news". I've got all javascript and java turned off in netscape. This is not the case in "internet mail&news". Could it be possible to remotely cause this to happen? I don't know. If it is, I'd likely find myself in a heap of problems unless I disable everything in explorer (which I now have done). All of a sudden, all javascript and java embedded fun would work just as it did a couple of years ago. Ouch. (No, do NOT advise me to install IE4/5 to get the security zones. I do NOT want a file handler that doesn't know how to differentiate between the www and my local drives.) Uhm.. Well, that's it, really. I don't really expect anyone to dive head-first into a full-out investigation, but if anyone's seen or heard anything about this, I for one would be interested in hearing about it. -- Mikael Olsson, EnterNet Sweden AB, Box 393, S-891 28 ÖRNSKÖLDSVIK Phone: +46 (0)660 29 92 00 Direct: +46 (0)660 29 92 05 Mobile: +46 (0)70 66 77 636 Fax: +46 (0)660 122 50 WWW: http://www.enternet.se/ E-mail: mikael.olsson () enternet se
Current thread:
- Netscape mail reader oddity Mikael Olsson (Aug 29)
- Re: Netscape mail reader oddity Chris A. Mattingly (Aug 29)
- Re: Netscape mail reader oddity Mikael Olsson (Aug 30)
- Re: Netscape mail reader oddity Silvio L. Nisgoski (Aug 30)
- Re: Netscape mail reader oddity H D Moore (Aug 31)
- Re: Netscape mail reader oddity Juan M. Courcoul (Aug 31)
- Re: Netscape mail reader oddity H D Moore (Aug 31)
- Re: Netscape mail reader oddity Chris A. Mattingly (Aug 29)