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

[Paul Fox]

jon wrote:
 > 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.

"mhlist -verbose -disposition" gives the filename.

paul
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