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>But if you did want to purposefully execute code, you’re saying a mail client shouldn’t let you open an attachment by design?

That sounds reasonable. You should have to save the attachment and run it from disk. The chances of any hunk of executable code being of some potential use on your particular architecture and OS was low back in the Win95 days and is even lower these days.




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