From: Paul Haldane (Paul.Haldane@newcastle.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 02 1999 - 10:58:48 CDT
Hi - I've not had a chance to look at your patches yet - they sound fine
and I'll be happy to fold them in (hopefully next week).
On the subject of attachments - a question/thought...
Some sites (alright at least one site that I know well) are cautious about
deploying the new version of hypermail with the ability to make ready
decoded attachments available. Concerns relate to the possibility of a
file infected with a macro virus being sent as an attachment and then
'run' directly from the web site.
Now this is probably tackling the problem the wrong way round, but would
it be possible/sensible to (optionally) have the link from the message to
the attachment not going straight to the attachment but at some derived
URL which forces the user browsing the archives through some sort of
warning screen? (bit vague there - my feeling is that this is technically
feasible - I'm not convinced it's a good idea).
Thoughts?
Paul
> I found a minor bug. When decoding messages with multiple MIME attachments,
> the decode variable (where the content encoding format is stored), isn't
> updated.
>
> This causes a problem with some messages which don't automatically include
> the Content-Encoding header for some attachments (e.g., MH auto-included
> signatures).