Whoops, you’re right. I suppose I should have no opinion on whether to
deprecate it; I haven’t thought about it for over two decades…

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 16:33 Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijls...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> El jue, 14 abr 2022 a las 12:21, Damian Shaw (<damian.peter.s...@gmail.com>)
> escribió:
>
>> > I searched grep.app and found no significant usage.
>>
>> Maybe someone wants to inform mitmproxy?
>>
>> It's a very popular tool and it comes up using that tool when searching
>> for "import mailcap" using grep.app:
>> https://grep.app/search?q=import%20mailcap
>>
>> https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/main/mitmproxy/tools/console/master.py#L2
>>
>
> Thanks for catching that! I missed it because I mistakenly searched for
> '"import mailcap"' in quotes. It looks like mitmproxy isn't vulnerable to
> the security issue because it only passes a filename from mkstemp() to
> mailcap, and hopefully mkstemp filenames don't have shell metacharacters in
> them. However, if we deprecate mailcap mitmproxy will have to change their
> code.
>
> El jue, 14 abr 2022 a las 13:33, Guido van Rossum (<gu...@python.org>)
> escribió:
>
>> Probably because it’s not a top level module — it’s inside the email
>> package.
>>
> It's in fact a top-level module.
>
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