[imp] IMP Attachment/MIME question

imp-archive@cloud9.net imp-archive at cloud9.net
Tue Oct 3 07:34:02 PDT 2006


Quoting Michael Slusarz:
> Quoting imp-archive at cloud9.net:
>
>> I have two IMP/horde setups running on two different production machines.
>> They're both running FreeBSD.  The one that is having the problem is
>> running FreeBSD 5.4, the other one that is fine is running FreeBSD
>> 6.1. Both are running the latest Apache 2.1.x and PHP 5.1.x as far
>> as I can tell.
>>
>> One can send MS Publisher (.PUB) documents properly as the
>> recipients can read the attached files with MS Publisher with no
>> issue.
>>
>> The other sends MS Publisher (.PUB) documents that cannot be read by
>> the recipients, the files are seen as corrupt.
>>
>> When attaching the files, the one that attaches the files that can
>> be read successfully by recipients shows that the file is detected
>> as an application/msword file in the IMP New Message window, but the
>> other one that doesn't work shows that the file is attached as a
>> plain text file.
>
>This is an issue with user #2's browser.  It apparently is reporting
>these files as text/plain when uploading - thus, that is how we fill
>in the Content-Type field.  Search the lists for multiple
>conversations on this same topic (you can probably search the bugs
>database also).
>
>michael
>
>___________________________________
>Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]

Actually, the same browser is in use, in fact the windows for both 
webmails are open in the same browser concurrently.  The same file is in 
use for the testing of the attachment of files.

--
Mark P. Hennessy




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