Hello Nigel
On 9 May 00, at 9:41, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> iforbes@??? said:
> > I think that there is a bug in this filter. I sent an attached VB
> > script with "Pegasus Mail" and it went straight through. (I am not
> > sure of Pegasus could be used by VB to send mail via Mappi ... but it
> > may be worth sorting this out).
>
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
> Content-description: Text from file 'LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs'
> I don't propose to fix that - currently I don't see how that can be
> executable.
You are correct.
> If that message is received by a pegasus or other MUA does the
> part show as an attachment (or an inline text/plain),
It shows it as an attachement.
> and does double-clicking (or whatever) the attachment execute it
> as VBS?
No. Pegasus has an option to "view" an attachment which
"launches an application to view the file". On this attachement it
launches the Notepad editor.
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