On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:18:33AM -0700, Duncan wrote: > On Tue 22 Jul 2003 01:31, Andi Payn posted as excerpted below: > > 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..."? > > Think like certain apps (or users) from a certain closed OS.. > > "Type" is conveyed by file extension. Therefore, since the original filename > and extension is mentioned, so is the "type". MIME-Type??? What's that?? > Text/Plain?? That's the format, not the file type. The file types in > question were of course "init" and "sysconfig".. Were you expecting files of > that type? <g> > > .. All according to the common parsing rules of this very common closed OS, > of course..
Or maybe it's just because mimedefang doesn't support adding the mime-type to that message because the hook function that lets you set it only provides you the old and new filenames. :) -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche
