[imp] attachment changes after sent with imp

[Philip Steeman]

SOLVED!!

In Administration->Setup->Horde->MIME Detection: this field was empty

In Debian-Sarge it must be: /usr/share/misc/file/magic

PS: Thanks especially to Daniel Ramaley for helping me.

Philip

Philip Steeman schreef:
> Hello,
> I've done some testing. With a test-script (found in your previous 
> thread) I can see that the file (clock.vi) has the mime-type: 
> application/octet-stream
> So my browser is telling imp the correct mime-type.
> But why is it then encoded as text/plain?
> Is this a bug in imp or have I done something wrong?
> 
> PS: you can download clock.vi and use the upload-script on
> http://users.khbo.be/steeman/check_mime.html
> 
> version of horde: 3.1.7
> version of imp: 4.1.6
> fileinfo installes
> 
> Philip
> 
> 
> Daniel A. Ramaley schreef:
>> On Wednesday 30 April 2008 04:40, Philip Steeman wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I have an attachment, a labview-file  (see
>>> http://users.khbo.be/steeman/clock.vi).
>>> When I sent this with imp as a attachment, and I save it with imp it
>>> is changed!!
>> I've had similar problems before. It turned out to be that Imp (or more 
>> appropriately, the libraries it relies on) was not detecting mime types 
>> correctly. Getting fileinfo working fixed it. The issue is described in 
>> greater detail in the archives. I recommend reading this thread because 
>> Michael Slusarz explained the problem quite well:
>>
>> http://marc.info/?t=114597510300001&r=1&w=2
>>
>> If that link breaks, search for a message sent by me on 2006-04-25 with 
>> the subject of "[imp] Attachment corruption problem" and you should 
>> find the beginning of the thread.
>>
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