[imp] Users don't want to "download" attachments

Matthew Boehm mboehm at cytelcom.com
Fri Apr 8 12:49:05 PDT 2005


OK. For some strange reason, this behavior was changed from pre 4.x imp.

In old imp, a person would receive a word, or excel attachment. The filename
would have a link and the correct icon would be displayed. When a person
clicked on the link, the file would be opened in a new browser window by the
application itself. Ex: Excel would launch itself and be "inside" the
browser much like Adobe PDFs.

Now, in imp 4.0, when a person clicks on the link, instead of getting the
old behavior, they are prompted with this error about not finding xlhtml or
some other program. This is bad. This is not expected behavior. So I went
into horde/config/mime_types.php and commented out all instances of
"msexcel" and "msword".

But now, the links are not there, and the icon is incorrect. WTF happened?
Users don't want to have to click the "download" icon and actually save it
somewhere. This is not what they are used to at all.

How can I get back the old behavior? We like all the other features that IMP
4 and Horde 3 offer but we need this paticular "old" way of doing things.

Thanks,
Matthew

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Matthew Boehm
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