[Esd-l] problems with version 1.136 (Mangle MIME type to TEXT/PLAIN, multipart/related inline images)

[John D. Hardin]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Peter van Campen wrote:

> But the reason to go from application/octet-stream to text/plain
> apparently was
> 	"to (hopefully) prevent magic scanning and execution."
> How could I test whether application/DEFANGEDoctet-stream prevents
> those too? (how about DEFANGEDapplication/DEFANGEDoctet-stream or
> application/27648DEFANGEDmsword)?

Double-click on an attachment and see what happens. It should always
ask you how to open it.

You may need to try attachments of several types.

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