From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Possible problem with Gnus Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 08:22:56 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040509230720.GB20485@fencepost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084278527 30500 80.91.224.253 (11 May 2004 12:28:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:28:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 11 14:28:43 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNWNH-0000LM-00 for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 14:28:43 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNWNG-0003H4-00 for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 14:28:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNWKS-0001Q8-Oa for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 08:25:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNWIL-00015s-53 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 08:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNWHh-0000vj-7F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 08:23:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNWHg-0000vX-OP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2004 08:22:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BNWHg-000844-Cs; Tue, 11 May 2004 08:22:56 -0400 Original-To: Reiner Steib In-reply-to: (message from Reiner Steib on Mon, 10 May 2004 12:04:10 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23132 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23132 We have to pay attention to an issue of how Gnus and other Emacs mail readers treat MIME attachments. Windows viruses often spread in attachments for Word. We have to make sure that attachments don't become a method for spreading viruses in Emacs. Some kinds of attachments run applications that perhaps can be assumed safe, such as a gif displayer. But attachments that run more complex attachments, such as a browser that might execute programs given it, have to be treated as unsafe. I don't use Gnus. How does a Gnus user specify to display an attachment? Does the user do this for one specific attachment, or for all the attachments in one message? Does Gnus ever display attachments in a message without a specific direct user request for that message?