On September 25, 1998 at 14:03, "John R. LoVerso" wrote:

> > To resolve the Eudora problem, the best solution is to fix Eudora.
> > If not possible, check the filter options to the various filters
> > documented in the MIMEFILTERS page for possible work-arounds on
> > the MHonArc side.
> 
> Being that 2.3 supports it, can't you just make "usenameext" the default
> option for the application/octet-stream filter?  This is much more likely
> to stop this question from being asked over and over than ho

No, it will never be the default.  "usenameext" opens create a security
hole.  For example, I can send a message with a filename of ".htpasswd".

        --ewh

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