Re: Large *.pif base64 attachments and Gnus...

[Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík)]

   From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
   Date: 02 Aug 2001 17:57:25 -0700

Hi,

   > > you probably see the same behaviour of our Outlook colleges sending us
   > > big .doc.pif files ;-) I'm trying to save them to a file with `o' on the
   > > MIME button.
   > 
   > This is almost certainly the SirCam virus, just so that you know.
   > (There's very rarely any reason for anyone to send you a .pif file; .pif
   > is the extension for a control file specifying how to run a DOS program
   > under Windows, IIRC.)  The .doc.pif bit in particular gives this away as
   > SirCam.

of course I know this is SirCam. See the `;-)' at the end of sentence. The
thing I'm trying to solve on the list of Gnus developers is to fix the
apparent bug in Gnus which saves an article as plain base64 bytes without
decoding... Just try it yourself and tell me, if it works for you. I;d like
to really SEE the contents of the file they sent me...
-- 
Pavel Janík

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