Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes: > On Sat 17 Dec 2016 at 20:28:21 +0100, Erwan David wrote: > > > opening a binary file in an unknown format is always a bad idea. > > Really? What binary file is in the mail?
The MIME content-type specified for that attachment is “application/octet-stream”. That explicitly means a stream of bytes, in an opaque format. Whether that specification is correct can only be determined by opening the content; exactly the mistake Erwan is warning against. -- \ “I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then | `\ I thought ‘Why should I? He never reads any of mine.’” —Spike | _o__) Milligan | Ben Finney
