[imp]Yet another IE download/view issue

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Igor Stroh <stroh@scan-plus.de>:

> some users experienced problems with attachments in IMP (3.1).
> Everything works correctly: if they click on the filename link then a JS
> popup window appears and the appropriate MIME-helper app tries to
> display the attached file (e.g. Word/Excel/Acroread etc), but when they
> click on the disc icon ("download") the attached file is again opened by
> a MIME-helper app. The users say it's confusing (I know it's just an
> issue of IE configuration). Is there a way to just let the client
> download the attachment? If so, could someone point me to the
> appropriate piece of code?

The headers we send are about as clear as can be: Browser, download this 
file! If IE is still ignoring it, well, that's IE's problem. The way I have 
IE6 configured, it works fine, but that might be because I turned off a lot 
of "friendly" options.

-chuck

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