From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24490 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Bihlmeyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Fwd: E-mail attachments and local names Date: 24 Jul 1999 16:22:27 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162049 9024 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:00:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:00:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA08705 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 11:49:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAB29677; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:49:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:49:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA22064 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:49:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from relay8.Austria.EU.net (relay8.Austria.EU.net [193.154.160.146]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA08691 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 11:48:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from uucp@localhost) by relay8.Austria.EU.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id RAA02779 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:41:41 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (qmail 3507 invoked by uid 115); 24 Jul 1999 14:22:28 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Robbe Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24490 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24490 --=-=-= Hi, this just came on comp.risks: --=-=-= Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:46:58 GMT From: rubin@research.att.com (Avi Rubin) Subject: E-mail attachments and local names I just had a mildly embarrassing incident because of a Netscape mail "feature" when sending attachments. I'm sure that other mailers do this as well. When attaching a file to an e-mail message, the local name of the file is included in the attachment. So, the recipient gets to see the contents of the file, as you would hope, but also the local name that you gave it. Imagine several possible embarrassing scenarios: Attachment: our.most.gullable.client.invoice.doc Attachment: proposal.with.doctored.data.xls Etc. It seems that the user should be able to rename the attachment for the purposes of the message or that the file should just be called attachment1, attachment2, ... Avi Rubin --=-=-= In gnus, a <#part ... filename="path/bla" disposition=attachment> <#/!part> will also leak the basename of filename ("bla" in this case) into the message. While I think this is mostly a useful feature, should this be made more obvious/intuitive? Robbe -- Robert Bihlmeyer reads: Deutsch, English, MIME, Latin-1, NO SPAM! --=-=-=--