[Esa-l] attachments being renamed.

[John D. Hardin]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Lee Howard wrote:

> Do I change the Content-Type line to read?:
> 
> Content-Type: image/tiff; name="FAX from $info{sender} at $info{received}"

Add ".tif" onto the end and that would fix it.

> >Interesting that you're seeing "default.tif". The sanitizer just
> >inserts "default" with no extension. Maybe it's not a good defense
> >against social engineering if the mail client insists on adding an
> >extension...
> 
> Hrmmm... I'm using that darn Outlook Express in this particular
> case.  Does that mean that if the Content-Type line had been
> something like application/vbs that it would have "gotten around"
> the sanitizer?

Maybe - I'd appreciate it if you'd try it and see if it does...

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