[Novalug] Interesting Evolution observation

Jon LaBadie novalugml at jgcomp.com
Fri Jan 16 13:03:15 EST 2009


On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 06:12:24AM -0500, Rich Goodwin wrote:
> A ramble to start the day ....
> 
> I just sent an email to a number of people.  I referenced that some had
> asked about the "file attached to my emails" that they could not open
> (all my emails are digitally signed and that is what they are seeing &
> trying to open).
> 
> What I found interesting is that Evolution scanned the message, saw the
> word "attached" and prompted me when sending it to say it noticed
> references to attachments but none were found!  Man, now we are getting
> some interesting intelligence in our software!  I have mixed feelings
> about this - I like the protection to save me from the embarrassment of
> sending a second email and apologizing for not having done it right to
> begin with.  But I also see this as being confusing to non-techies ... 
> 

What I found interesting is that Evolution also attached its
prompt to you as a .jpeg in your current message to the list.

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