Re: How to interact with Address Book or Mail App
Re: How to interact with Address Book or Mail App
- Subject: Re: How to interact with Address Book or Mail App
- From: Norbert Heger <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 14:32:00 +0100
Sven-S. Porst <email@hidden> wrote:
>
Looking at the capabilities of the current Address Book, I assume there
>
may be good reasons for Apple _not_ to publish the interface for it:
>
<SNIP>
>
... as every virus email that is sent by one of our Windows
>
friends/colleagues shows, you probably shouldn't have a publicly
>
available way to access address information unless you have, say,
>
keychain-style access control for it.
I don't think that security issues are the reason for keeping the API
private. Otherwise it wouldn't be possible to do things like:
grep "^To:" ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/Sent\ Messages.mbox/mbox
Having an entire mbox file accessible is an even bigger security risk, since
it allows a virus to retrieve not only email addresses but meaningful
subjects as well.
Best Regards, Norbert
_____________________________________________
Norbert Heger, Objective Development
http://www.obdev.at/