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

[Jon Fairbairn]

Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi David,
>
>> 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.
> ...
>>     For security reasons, this filename will be ignored if it begins
>>     with the character '/', '.', '|', or '!', or if it contains the
>>     character '%'.
>
> I was wondering if mhlist(1)'s -verbose gave sufficient detail,
> regardless of the "insecurity" of the filename.

Not really. While it includes the “description” field, it
doesn’t include the filename.

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Jón Fairbairn                                 address@hidden