current MIME decoder

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Fri Jan 3 15:01:09 CET 2003


At 01:18 AM 1/3/03, Chris Wilkes wrote:

>One case I can think of where the 'filename' parameter could be
>tokenized is if it is a known bad extension, like .scr for a Windows
>screensaver.
>
>My personal opinion is that filtering for these special cases is more
>trouble than its worth and that should be left to anti-virus scanners.
>Besides a known bad attachment probably has a subject line like ILOVEYOU
>that will register as spam after an email or two.

Chris,

I agree.  Too much trouble.

By the way, have you been testing with the new mime processing 
code?  Anything to report?

David





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