Thunderbird & Okular question

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Feb 1 22:13:32 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 21:52 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> They could figure out the MIME type client side using the same
> shared-mime-info-based mechanisms which are used after saving the file
> (extension, sometimes file contents), either just for generic
> application/octet-stream attachments or generally ignoring the sent
> MIME type.

Hmm, well, we've all seen where that's lead to on the Microsoft
platform:  Sending bogus information.  Executing attached files that
should never have been executing...

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