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RFC 1521 - 9. Security Considerations
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9. Security Considerations

Security issues are discussed in Section 7.4.2 and in Appendix F. Implementors should pay special attention to the security implications of any mail content-types that can cause the remote execution of any actions in the recipient's environment. In such cases, the discussion of the application/postscript content-type in Section 7.4.2 may serve as a model for considering other content- types with remote execution capabilities.


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RFC 1521 - 9. Security Considerations