Attachment handling in Mutt
I'm using Mutt 1.4i (2002-05-29) on a sid (debian unstable) box with a
2.4.16 kernel.
Over the past several months, I have been receiving email messages that
(probably) contain various forms of "malware". In these messages, there
are two attachments: the first is the (DOS/Win) executable, and the
second is a similarly named non-executable. Both attachments have the
same Content-ID and the same attachment boundary. For example:
--SomeAttachmentBoundary
content-type: application/octet-stream;
name=login[1].exe
content-transfer-Encoding: base64
content-id: <UW9x74a4V3fKms37>
[The base64 encoded attachment]
--SomeAttachmentBoundary
--SomeAttachmentBoundary
content-type: application/octet-stream;
name=login[1].htm
content-transfer-encoding: base64
content-id: <UW9x74a4V3fKms37>
[Another base64 encoded attachment]
--SomeAttachmentBoundary
Mutt only shows the second attachment (there is no indication that the
message contains the executable). Since these messages have had DOS/Win
programs, I haven't been too concerned, however, I think that this
could pose a risk if a Linux executable was sent this way.
Is there a way tell Mutt to list all attachments? If so, why isn't this
the default behaviour?
Regards,
Patrick
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Applied AI Systems, Inc. Fax: (613) 839-6616
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