OE6 SP2 patch released!!!

[Guest]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...50-dc56-47bc-9112-023e11c61f9d&DisplayLang=en

 

[Engel]

Thank you for the heads up

 

[Roy]

How I can be inform on the updates?

As in the case of OE, what service you use to obtain that
informacion

Thanks for your time

 

[Bill Sanderson]

This isn't a security patch, so it isn't covered by the security
notifications bulletin subscription.

There are several issues that this patch attempts to fix, one of which is
widely known as the "watched thread" bug. I can't quickly describe this
one, but most folks who have used OE as a newsreader have probably run into
it at one time or another. Another bug relates to how binary attachments
are detected and decoded by OE, if I understand it correctly.

You can sign up here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/render.aspx?displaylang=en&content=notifications

for notifictions from the download center, but I've not used this service,
so I'm not sure how "granular" it is--there are a LOT of downloads.

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[Engel]

Thank you for the link

-----Original Message-----
This isn't a security patch, so it isn't covered by the security
notifications bulletin subscription.

There are several issues that this patch attempts to fix, one of which is
widely known as the "watched thread" bug. I can't quickly describe this
one, but most folks who have used OE as a newsreader have probably run into
it at one time or another. Another bug relates to how binary attachments
are detected and decoded by OE, if I understand it correctly.

You can sign up here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/render.aspx? displaylang=en&content=notifications

for notifictions from the download center, but I've not used this service,
so I'm not sure how "granular" it is--there are a LOT of downloads.

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[Bill Sanderson]

notifictions=not i f i cations!!

(not meant as a pun on th qualitity of the content.)

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[Bullwinkle. J. Moose]

That's funny. We read these so fast I never noticed it. Thanks Bill.

 

[Guest]

This isn't a security patch, so it isn't covered by the
security

notifications bulletin subscription.

but why when you install that patch it says: "security
update for windows xp"?

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Hmm---Let me find a machine I haven't put it in on and check. Good
question!

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[Bill Sanderson]

So far, exploring, I don't see anything calling this a security patch at
either of the descriptive locations:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900930

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...50-dc56-47bc-9112-023e11c61f9d&displaylang=en

Now off to do an install:

OK - that's loud and clear: Security Update for Outlook Express.

I'll go ask some folks about this--I'm confused.

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[Mikolaj]

Unfortunatelly this patch is rather a piece of junk :-(

It does not solve the problem with the word "begin".. Even the info about
this patch misleads, as the problem exist when the "begin" is in the body,
not in the subject of the email..

MS didn't carefully tested this patch, I'm affraid..

 

[Bullwinkle. J. Moose]

I'm no expert but I think this is an interim solution to a problem. OE7 is
due to come out soon.

 

[Mikolaj]

I'm no expert but I think this is an interim solution to a problem. OE7 is

due to come out soon.

Really? I don't think so.. It states, that this patch solves some problems,
but it apparently does not. Besides OE7 is not going to run on all the MS
systems as the OE6 is, isn't it? And furthermore - OE7 is still an expected,
not an used solution..

So the patch designed for currently running systems/apps shouldn't be an
"interim" solution.. And shouldn't be a fake..