On 31/12/24 14:36, Tim via users wrote:
Samuel Sieb:What does the "file" command say the file is?Stephen Morris:I'll need to check this out, I didn't actually extract the file from the email, I "played" it directly from the mail.Considering its origins, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised that it's abnormal data, and served with the wrong mimetype. Look at the email source, and see what headers precede the attachment. Also save the file, and examine it separately. Microsoft mail products have been notorious for attaching files with the completely wrong descriptions, just expecting that the receiver would figure it out anyway. That's how they worked, ignoring MIME, assessing the content, then doing whatever was normal for that file (such as executing executable attachments, like viruses and trojans that were falsely identified as MIDI files in the sending mail). They were also infamous for mangling data, too.
VLC did "play" the file correctly, there was no actual audio in the file, I was just "playing" it in something else to see if VLC was "playing" it properly. I seem to not have the email anymore, so I'll retrieve it from work again if I still have it.
I know Microsoft products are horrendous at doing things properly, Outlook used to be notorious at mime encoding the name of attachments so that only Outlook could determine the name of the attachment, but in recent times that seems to have changed.
regards,
Steve
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