Re: [Evolution] [Fwd: Another possible RFC 2046 vulnerability.]

[Richard Bellavance <richard bellavance enter-net com>]

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:20, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> Besides, Evolution is a Unix client - I don't know of any virus that
> Evolution will auto-execute and will allow to root your system and do
> all sorts of nasty stuff.
>
> Evolution will never run a script or binary attachment. Ever. And afaik,
> we don't plan on making it so that messages can contain embedded scripts
> that Evolution will auto-magically run like Outlook does, so that's not
> an issue either. (We do plan to add scripting support to Evolution at
> some point, but we do not plan to make it so that messages can invoke
> commands).

That's all I wanted to hear.  Sorry for sounding "alarmist", and thanks
for the answer.

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