Sept. 24, 2004
10:04 p.m.
On Friday, Sep 24, 2004, at 16:43 US/Eastern, Brad Knowles wrote:
At 10:50 AM -0600 2004-09-24, Kory Wheatley wrote:
I have Scrubber enabled on my Mailman 2.1.5 configuration. It works fine stripping the attachments, except, why does it change a Microsoft Word extension ".doc" to a ".bin"?
Because leaving it as a ".doc" file is dangerous.
Get real. It changes the extension not because .doc files are dangerous but because the sender simply failed to use Mailman's idea of the proper MIME type for a .doc file. You can of course get Mailman to leave a .doc file as a .doc file by sending it in with a content-type of application/msword. This just turns out to be unlikely in practice because MUAs have limited knowledge of proper MIME types.
--Robby