Re: attachment filenames explained and stuff

From: Daniel Stenberg <dast_at_sth.frontec.se_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:53:21 +0200 (MET DST)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9904220051220.15851-100000_at_metal.sth.frontec.se>

On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, John Finlay wrote:

> This doesn't avoid the problem of one attachment overwriting a different
> attachment with the same name.

No, that particular fix doesn't. Hypermail already checks for existing file names before it saves an attachment. It then tries simple alterations (by prepending a single letter to the filename, a to z) and if none succeeds it falls back to generating a random one.

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             Daniel Stenberg - http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast
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Received on Thu 22 Apr 1999 04:35:06 AM GMT