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. :)

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