[imp] Compose window refresh problems after clicking "attach"

[Michael Dahlberg]

Quoting Paul A Sand <pas at unh.edu>:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 10:05:55AM -0400, Michael Dahlberg wrote:
>> I have some further information about this.  It seems that this "blank
>> compose"
>> window condition only occurs when I try to attach files of unknown file
>> type. Is there a way to disable the file type analysis when attaching a
>> file to an
>> email message?
>
> Hi --
>
> We had similar woes here:
> http://lists.horde.org/archives/imp/Week-of-Mon-20050411/041721.html
>
> This was solved, I think, by installing the 'FileInfo' PECL module:
> http://lists.horde.org/archives/imp/Week-of-Mon-20050411/041742.html
>
> This may not be your problem, but it sounds awful similar.

Paul:

Thanks for the suggestions.  I agree, I think it probably is the same problem.
However, I have two issues with this
fix:

(1) I have NEVER been able to get the FileInfo PECL module installed.  I'm
running Horde/Imp on Solaris 9 and I think I have some un-met dependancy that
is present on Linux distributions but not on Solaris.  I've tried looking at
the docs (theres not much available) to no avail.  These are the error
messages
I get:

#pear install fileinfo
downloading Fileinfo-1.0.tgz ...
Starting to download Fileinfo-1.0.tgz (5,566 bytes)
.....done: 5,566 bytes
3 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:         20020918
Zend Module Api No:      20020429
Zend Extension Api No:   20021010
/usr/local/share/aclocal/libmcrypt.m4:17: warning: underquoted definition of
AM_PATH_LIBMCRYPT
run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal

`phpize' failed

Not real informative.

(2) I'm sure FileInfo can't cover ALL extensions.  What happens when it finds
an
attachment of a type that it does not recognize?  I'm then back to a blank
compose window (possibly).

If you have any suggestions on installing FileInfo or where to look for an
output log that may specify why the compile is failing, I would be most
appreciative.

Thanks,
Mike