[Mimedefang] Patch for MIME::Tools

[Zhang Lin-bo]

I have applied the patch yesterday, but this morning I
still received an email with an attachment named banner[1].scr
Are there any other steps that I should perform in order for
the patch to take effect?

LB

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, David F. Skoll wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have made a patch for MIME::Tools which causes it to recognize things
> like:
>
>         Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name=foo[1].pif
>
> whereas ordinarily it would require:
>
>         Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name="foo[1].pif"
>
> Please note that the first line is NOT MIME COMPLIANT.  Therefore, the
> MIME::Tools author could legitimately argue that it's an error to
> accept the name as "foo[1].pif".  However, it seems to me that in the
> interest of safety, MIMEDefang should do what most MUA's are likely to
> do.
>
> The patch is linked from http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/
> (near the download section) and should be applied to MIME::Tools 5.411a.
>
> I think this will fix the problems another poster was having with
> 8-bit characters in unquoted filenames.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
>
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