Re: [Nmh-workers] mhstore RFE: add facility to manipulate the original filename

[Jon Fairbairn]

David Levine <address@hidden> writes:

> Jón wrote:
>
>> Background: I’m using mhstore in a script to automatically
>> extract images and text from messages. Since the messages come
>> from and results go to naïve users, I’d like to be able to use
>> the original file basenames so that they recognise what they
>> sent.
>> 
>> -auto isn’t desirable because it completely ignores the filename
>> if there’s anything dodgy about it.
>
> Specifically,
>
>     For security reasons, this filename will be ignored if it
>     begins with the character '/', '.', '|', or '!', or if it
>     contains the character '%'.
>
> Is that necessary?  Esp. with any of the non-default -clobber
> settings.
>
> Would adding a switch to skip that check and allow any filename
> help?

Not really. For my case, I wouldn’t want anything put into a
subdirectory, and obeying anything beginning with .. would be a
real nuisance! I just want to extract enough of the filename so
that the sender can recognise it (with reasonably high
probability :-)

  — Jón

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Jón Fairbairn                                 address@hidden