https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67516
Bernd Oliver Sünderhauf <pancho...@riseup.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDSINFO |RESOLVED Resolution|WAITINGFORINFO |WONTFIX Summary|KMail does not seem to |Support content type |suppost the RFC 2046 |message/partial (RFC 2046) |standard for content type: |reassembling messages |message/partial. (at least | |partial messages I receive | |are not reassembled) | --- Comment #7 from Bernd Oliver Sünderhauf <pancho...@riseup.net> --- Yes, I remember and found some evidence that they are still produced by recent Outlook versions. However, these days they seem to be mostly used for obfuscating malware, because split up attachments can't be checked by antivirus software. The security problems are so large that even Exchange Server 2007 blocks them, as well as Qmail and probably more mail servers and antivirus software. Finally, US-CERT explicitely warns from automatically reassembling the partial messages (https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/836088) and proposes rejecting partial messages. So if some really stable code with secure logics and a foolproof UI existed, we might want to think about it. But it doesn't, and the demand has been ceasing, so I think it's really not worth the hassle. Therefore I'm marking this WONTFIX. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Kdepim-bugs mailing list Kdepim-bugs@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-bugs