On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 07:17, Joseph Brennan wrote: > That's exactly what we did. Thus, my unhappiness with not accepting > them now. > > Besides, what will be next? hqx? sit? tar? I don't use Windows; > I wonder whether the other archive and compression formats are as > easy to open, or whether Microsoft will make them so if zip is > deprecated.
The process of 'opening' isn't built into outlook, hence the problem. The same thing happens for an outlook attachment as would happen to a file. When you double-click it, the handler registered for that file extension executes. If winzip is installed and has registered itself as the handler for tar (and I think it does), then a tar attachment will open automatically just like zip. Likewise for any other type - if you have a handler, outlook will run it. In old/unpatched versions of outlook this is even worse. Some file types are processed automatically in the preview pane, like playing sounds. The old bug used the Mime content-type header to decide when to run something automatically but the file extension to decide what handler to run... --- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
