[imp] Sending MS word documents mime type gets changed.

[Robert Sand]

Robert Sand wrote:

> Eric Rostetter wrote:
>
>> Quoting Robert Sand <rsand at d.umn.edu>:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Using imp Head, RedHat 8.0
>>>
>>> Word documents sent as attachments are being sent with an rtf mimetype.
>>> Does anybody know how or what I should change to get the correct mime
>>> type for both word and excel docs?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> What version of IMP, and what version of php?
>>
>> Try horde/config/mime_*.php and/or horde/imp/config/mime_*.php to start.
>> An expert might have better advice.  If using a current (HEAD?) IMP with
>> a current PHP (4.3?) then you can have it use the file command or php
>> builtin file functionality to id the files.  Again, an expert (Michael)
>> may have better advice, but knowing your Horde/IMP/PHP versions would
>> certainly help answer the question.
>>
>>  
>>
> Here is more information.  The version of imp is the CVS HEAD version 
> from Thursday last week.  I am able to send a word document via imp 
> but when wvhtml bings it up it say "How Odd A blank file" or something 
> similar or nothing at all.  The version of php is 4.2.2 that came with 
> redhat 8.  I did set the path to file in horde/config/conf.php.  The 
> person I was talking to about the document being converted to rtf had 
> a bad file but what I now describe does happen.
>
And this is the exact messge that showes up in the browser when I try to 
view the document:
how odd:  a blank named file in the directory.  When the document is 
saved via imp word can no longer load it.

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