Re: [Fed-Talk] weird issue causing problems with encrypted emails
Re: [Fed-Talk] weird issue causing problems with encrypted emails
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] weird issue causing problems with encrypted emails
- From: "Link, Peter R." <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:15:49 -0800
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] weird issue causing problems with encrypted emails
Actually, Outlook 2011 is running correctly so it's not a bug. All the other applications you mentioned are running incorrectly so bugs should be filed against them, which won't go anywhere.
On Nov 8, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Fairbanks, Lee (contr-its) wrote:
> To add to the confusion, as far as I can tell Outlook 2007 and 2010 for Windows, and Entourage 200X for Mac are case insensitive, but Outlook 2011 for Mac is not. If I have the same mailbox (mine) open on all versions, the email@hidden capitalized addresses are flagged as a mismatch on Outlook 2011, but none of the others.
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> I submitted a bug report on it to Microsoft but that never went anywhere.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fed-talk-bounces+lee.fairbanks.ctr=email@hidden [mailto:fed-talk-bounces+lee.fairbanks.ctr=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Miller, Timothy J.
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:16 AM
> To: Link, Peter R.; Fed Talk
> Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] weird issue causing problems with encrypted emails
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> Exchange is at heart an X.400 mail system, not an IETF mail system. Only mail that leaves the Exchange organization (the set of mutually-trusting Exchange sites) is rewritten into IETF forms. So what the user sees in the header when they compose in Outlook isn't necessarily what shows up at the other side.
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> You should check the user's list of address aliases. The primary SMTP address is the one Exchange will use to write outgoing message header with.
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> -- T
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> On 11/7/11 4:14 PM, "Link, Peter R." <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> This thread is similar to the PKI SIGNED E-MAIL issue but it shows how
>> crazy things can get when using Windows systems and Exchange.
>> There are times when I receive an email from a Windows user and I can't
>> reply with encryption. The reason is their email address doesn't match
>> the email address in their certificate. Shawn has already discussed why
>> this is happening. The weird thing is Outlook seems to be configured
>> properly, with all lower-case letters in the email. A co-worker checked
>> one of the people's settings in Outlook and it is using a lower case h
>> (hername1). He had her send him a test email today and sure enough a
>> capital H showed up in her email address.
>>
>> So he just did some checking in Active Directory and found something
>> odd about her and another's entry. Both of them have a capital first
>> letter in their home directory field and others he checked do not. All
>> the other fields in AD for them are lower case, it's only the home
>> directory field that has a capital letter. The people with initial caps
>> in their home directory, but not in their Outlook settings, cause
>> problems with email and encryption. The one's with lowercase letters in everything do not.
>> (The names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty.)
>>
>> Home Directory: /home/karjack1
>> Home Directory: /home/Manwar1
>> Home Directory: /home/Hername1
>> Home Directory: /home/boss2
>>
>> So is the Exchange server doing some kind of validation to the address?
>> Why would the home directory name come into play? Has anyone else seen
>> this problem and know what needs to be fixed? I know changing the home
>> directory to match the email address should work but why should it
>> matter?
>>
>>
>> Peter Link
>> Cyber Security Analyst
>> Cyber Security Program
>> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>> PO Box 808, L-315
>> Livermore, CA 94550
>> email@hidden
>>
>> The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect the
>> views or position of the U.S. Department of Energy, Federal Government,
>> National Nuclear Security Administration, Lawrence Livermore National
>> Security, or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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