Re: extract the attachments into a directory named by the email adress o

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, 01:16 GMT-05 robert guru wrote:

What i want to do is to extract the attachment files into a directory named
by the email adress of the sender (in order to reply him),


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this is a bad idea. What makes you sure that the address found in the
From: header was in fact the person who sent the mail? Nearly 100% of
mails with attachments are viruses and nearly 100% of their From:
addresses are faked. So replying to such addresses makes the evil
situation even more evil.

rob.


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