[imp] problem with attachments in unicode (UTF16)

[Tim Bannister]

> > So it becomes corrupted when opened in Outlook or Thunderbird.
> 
> I tested this with Iceweasel (Firefox) 2.0.0.12 on Debian Unstable as the 
> client, and the latest stable releases of Horde and IMP with PHP5 on 
> Debian Etch as the server.  The browser says the content-type is 
> text/plain when it uploads the attachment.  Here is the exact attachment 
> that was sent in the email:

You haven't mentioned what encoding the browser claimed when uploading the
file. For this to work, the browser needs to upload the file with
metadata like this:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-16

I don't think my main browser would get the upload part right. It tends
to be guesswork on most systems as filesystem metadata (etc) are not
trustworthy enough.

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Tim Bannister
IT Services division
The University of Manchester

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