Outlook Express 6 on WinXP and this list

[Richard Cole]

I have had the message saying my post was being held for list moderator 
review.  I also have a laptop running XP, which I am now using to post this 
message.  I have checked, and the offending message was not sent from the XP 
machine, which I am using to send this message.  I think it was sent from a 
laptop running Windows 7 Professional and Windows Mail (the Vista email 
client).  It has since been upgraded to Windows 10, which has meant I have 
had to move to Windows Live Mail.  It seems the Sent items have not been 
imported.

At the time I thought the subject line might have been embargoed.  It 
was --p???? option.  I have since see a comment that discussion of that 
option is banned.

Another possible cause was where I was when I sent it.  I'll email you with 
details.  If that was the cause, I can't reproduce it until I go back there.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vangelis forthnet" <northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr>
To: <get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 1:31 AM
Subject: Outlook Express 6 on WinXP and this list


> On Tue Apr 5 16:36:40 BST 2016, I wrote:
>> Also, I was e-mailed in private by member "d4x"
>> (who has trouble sending e-mails directly to the list)
>
> Hi - it has since emerged that GiP user "d4x" employs Microsoft Outlook 
> Express 6.00.2900.5931 as his e-mail client, which is the built-in e-mail 
> client of Windows XP.
>
> "d4x" had recently another Windows XP related issue that was posted on the 
> support forum: 
> https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/thread-686-post-3740.html
> and was quickly acted upon by dinkypumpkin, but it appears his EOL'd OS is 
> causing him extra grief when trying to subscribe/post to this very list.
> Registration/Subscription appears successful, but no confirmation e-mail 
> is received, nor any other list traffic.
> Trying to post directly to the list (in plain-text format) results in an 
> immediate bounce by the list.
> I was intrigued by his issue so today I brought my WinXP (SP2) desktop out 
> of retirement (been there since November 2015) and did some tests:
> When I myself tried to post to the list using MSOE 6.00, the test mail 
> instantly bounced back:
>> Your mail to 'get_iplayer' with the subject
>>
>>   Re: Total failure for tv this morning - 9.30am BST
>>
>> Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
>>
>> The reason it is being held:
>>
>>  Message has a suspicious header
>>
>> Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
>> notification of the moderator's decision.  If you would like to cancel
>> this posting, please visit the following URL:
>
> I have advised "d4x" to try third party mail clients on XP to see if that 
> fixes his issue, have yet to hear back.
> I recall some list members are still on XP - can any of you replicate 
> reported issue?
>
> Since the deprecation of SHA-1 Hashing Algorithm by Microsoft on Jan 1st 
> 2016, I now find many SSL (https) URLs simply won't load in XP's IE8, the 
> same goes for other functions using OS modules to access the net - I 
> believe this is the reason behind d4x's "zeranoe" issue...
>
> To all list members: Please refrain from the obvious suggestion d4x should 
> either upgrade to a MS supported Windows version or change to an Open 
> Source OS; this is not the intent of my post!
>
> To the list maintainer (David Woodhouse): Have you purposely blocked 
> traffic originating from MSOE 6.00 / WinXP as being an insecure client/OS?
>
> Many thanks for any additional detail/insight on this...
>
> Kind regards, Vangelis.
>
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