AW: Problems with TNEF and long filenames

[Denis Beauchemin]

Julian Field a écrit :
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> Denis Beauchemin wrote:
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>> Julian Field a écrit :
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>>> Is it really worth making this yet another settable option?
>>> Does anyone (except the original poster) want to be able to tweak 
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>> Julian,
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>> What was this about exactly? I vaguely remember files within TNEF 
>> containers having shorter names than originally.  But what were you to 
>> do about it?
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> When TNEF files were being replaced with the original attachments, 
> MailScanner was using shortened "safe" filenames, rather than the 
> original long filenames. I have changed it to use the original long 
> filenames.
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If the long filenames don't trigger any rule in filename.rules.conf, 
then I don't see the need to shorten them or even sanitize them.

Denis
PS: I know the thread was not old but I don't have the emails anymore 
and I was too lazy to search them on the net... :-/

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