[Mailman-Developers] SCRUBBER Question

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Sat Sep 25 01:07:33 CEST 2004


At 6:04 PM -0400 2004-09-24, Robby Griffin wrote:

>>  	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.

	Leaving it as a ".doc" file when the MIME bodypart type does not 
match the claimed extension *is* dangerous.

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