I can't help weighing in on this. I read my mail on a Unix host, using rmail mode in emacs. (the emacs is running in an X window on my W2K desktop box (or on my OSX MAC laptop)). In this mode, I see the entire message, MIME headers, and all. In particular, I see the foo.jpg.exe file names that attempt to hide as something else, etc. In the unlikely event that I want to deal with the attachment, I bracket it with the emacs "point" and "mark" and do a M-x MIME-decode-region which invokes a decoder to extract the file and put it on disk in a directory reserved for attachments. If I actually want to do something with it, I invoke the appropriate windows program and point it at the file. The only files that I have any reason to want to open are usually word, powerpoint, and excel files from known (and expected) sources, and I have macros turned off in those applications. Mail in unknown formats or that starts with html is immediately deleted. Thus far, I have had no problems John
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