David W. Fenton / 05.4.17 / 04:21 PM wrote: >One thing I *will* differ with is Dennis's reference to "monitoring >your attachments folder." That clearly shows that he's using Eudora, >which is the only email client I know of that decodes attachments and >stores them in the file system upon arrival of email. I consider this >to be a *very* bad design flaw in Eudora, as anyone can accidentally >execute malicious payloads that are stored in the file system, which >could never happen with an email client that doesn't decode the >attachments until requested.
I actually view from an opposite side. I don't like attachment is encoded within mail database. It leads database to be much easier to corrupt, and backing up becomes difficult because of its size. I don't use Eudora but I considered it because of this feature. Too bad Eudora Unicode implementation is plain terrible. I use PowerMail. I still believe there is no way an attachment executes by itself at decode on Mac side :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
