[Mailman-Developers] SCRUBBER Question

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Sat Sep 25 00:27:13 CEST 2004


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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