On Tuesday 22 July 2003 00:30, Dave Cotton wrote:
> Does this mean MIME-defang  works?

Apparently.

But is it possible to configure it to move all that text except the first 
sentence to the end of the message? It's a bit annoying to have to scroll 
through 40-odd lines of wordy warnings to get to the 10-line message.

Also, what exactly did MIME-defang do in this case? As a guess, it seems to 
have converted text/plain attachments with useful names into 
application/octet-stream attachments with meaningless names, apparently 
without changing the content at all. Which means that you have to skim the 
warnings to figure out which file is which--and, at least for kmail users, 
that they open in kwrite instead of in your default text editor (or inline, 
or in the built-in text viewer). What is this protecting us from?

Finally, it's a bit strange to say, "... if you were not expecting a file of 
this type..." and never mention what type the file originally was. Couldn't 
MIME-defang say, "An attachment named 'foo' of type 'mime/type' was 
converted..."?


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