Attachment missing Periods when opening

[Kenji Horvath]

I am a developer for a computer software company and our product takes
files such as .txt files and adds an extension to it. So a test.txt file
turns into test.txt.foo . My issue is that with Outlook 2003 when someone
double clicks on an attached file test.txt.foo it actually saves off the
file into the temporary directory as test txt.foo. It deletes the first
period. In the e-mail it displays the file name correctly so i am perplexed
as to why it saves it off differently. All over versions of outlook work
properly. Does anyone know how to have access to original filename that is
displayed in the outlook message? Thank you very much in advance for any
help you can provide.

Kenji

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am a developer for a computer software company and our product
takes files such as .txt files and adds an extension to it. So a
test.txt file turns into test.txt.foo .

I reject all attachments whose name contains multiple perionds and I'd wager
so do a lot of people, as this is one of the ways hackers use to get people
to execute virus-laden attachments.