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On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Joseph Brennan wrote:

Mismatch noticed in Chinese-language spam:

Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel;
        name=nfy.xls
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
        filename=vmdgjctvi.xls

I wonder whether name= and filename= being different are diagnostic of fakery
or are just something one can expect in mail from normal software. I never paid
attention. Before I figure how to parse them out and log them to check-- has
anyone gone down this path already?

I did not checked the implications of this mismatch, but I'm running a filename cleanup routine in MIMEDefang and had to adjust it to cope with this problem. I have seen legit mails, where one name is rubbish (consiting of two UTF-8 characters most of the time) and the other looks good. They are forwarded by Exchange servers, then a colleque sees rubbish, but I see a valid filename -> Thunderbird and Pine seem to use different headers to determine the filename ... .

My routine (see above), picks the name with an extension \.[[:alnum:]]+\z and the least non-Latin1-characters, if there are more than one name; sanitizes it and writes it back into the header for both names.

Regards,

- -- Steffen Kaiser
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