Robby Griffin wrote:
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.
So Mailman should dumb itself down to the level of these MUAs?
Even Popcorn, my Windows client of choice, which is a fully self contained (except for a small initialization file) compressed executable 118KB in size, knows the proper MIME content-type for most common file types.
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