[dev] MIME_Magic::

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Mon, 17 Dec 2001 20:05:57 -0500


Quoting Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>:

> Incidentally, this isn't used in IMP since I didn't want to start
> overriding MIME types based on file extensions without careful
> thought as to the security implications of this (think Outlook).

Yeah, I can see that. I was wondering why it wasn't built into the framework, 
but that makes sense now.

Maybe giving people a "view this as xxxx", with a "make sure it doesn't contain 
a virus" popup warning?

-chuck

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