[imp] can't send a particular combination of body text and attachment

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Andy Rowan <rowan at crssa.rutgers.edu>:

>
> This is strange.  Over the last six months or so, we've had two different
> users come up against this problem just a couple of times.  They go to
> compose a message, add an attachment, and then when they push the send
> button, it doesn't send ... instead the signature gets inserted again into
> the top of the message, but the compose window stays open and the message
> does not get sent.  Push the send button again, you get another sig.  Ad
> infinitum.
>
> Use a different message body, same attachment, and it works fine.  Use the
> same message body with no attachment, or a different one, and it works
> fine.  It's the particular combination of the text and the attachment that
> seems to trigger it.  One time I think the attachment was a PDF, the more
> recent time it was a word doc.  I've looked at the message body of that
> recent one, and there's nothing extraordinary I can see in it.  I mean, it
> has an ampersand here and there, but nothing I can recognize that would
> explain this (but I may be in Flatland and not know what to look
> for).  Then today the same user had trouble forwarding a message that was
> multipart/alternative with a text version and an html version.
>
> I wiped out the user's horde preferences out of the database and had her
> try again ... ho help.  With no signature defined, the problem still
> happens.  (You just don't see an extra sig getting inserted,
> obviously.)  If she tries it from a different PC, it still happens.
>
> Platform info:
> redhat linux 7.2
> php-4.1.2-7.2.6
> horde-2.1-3
> imp-3.1-2
>
> Any thoughts?

It might be this browser bug that was fixed in IMP 3.2:
[mms] Workaround for multipart/form-data and IE 6+ browsers on the compose
       page.

Search the list archives or browse the CVS commits for more information 
on this
fix.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]