[imp] IMP not displaying attachment due to missing MIME Content-type name field

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Tue Aug 18 16:26:51 UTC 2009


Quoting David Brangaitis <David.Brangaitis at marist.edu>:

> Hello,
> We've noticed that attachments in incoming email from certain hosts were
> not displaying in IMP.  This seems to occur when the mail is sent without
> the name= parameter set in the Content-type area of the MIME info.  For
> example:
> --This will not display:
> Content-Type: application/msword
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="document.doc"
> --
> --This will display:
> Content-type: application/msword;
>  name="document.doc"
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="document.doc"
> Content-transfer-encoding: base64
>
> As I understand it, name= in Content-type is deprecated, though most
> clients seem to still use it.
> Any ideas about this?  Could this have anything to do with the Pear module?

This is either an IMAP issue or a c-client issue, not a Horde/IMP issue.

michael

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