Re: attachment filenames explained and stuff

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From: Daniel Stenberg (dast@sth.frontec.se)
Date: Wed Apr 21 1999 - 17:53:21 CDT


On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, John Finlay wrote:

> This doesn't avoid the problem of one attachment overwriting a different
> attachment with the same name.

No, that particular fix doesn't. Hypermail already checks for existing file
names before it saves an attachment. It then tries simple alterations (by
prepending a single letter to the filename, a to z) and if none succeeds it
falls back to generating a random one.

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             Daniel Stenberg - http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast
   ech`echo xiun|tr nu oc|sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol

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