[imp] Composition and PDF attachments

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting cjdl01 <cjdl01 at brokensolstice.com>:

> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting cjdl01 <cjdl01 at brokensolstice.com>:
>>
>>> I'm using Imp 5.0.15 with Horde 4.0.12.
>>>
>>> I am a linux guy, so I do 99% of my work on linux boxes.  As part  
>>> of my work, I send a lot of invoices out to customers in pdf format.
>>>
>>> I am using Mozilla firefox 7.0.1, and Adobe Reader 9.4.2 with the  
>>> firefox plugin on a gentoo box current as of yesterday.  It works  
>>> fine normally, but for some reason, when attaching a PDF to an  
>>> email and clicking on the link (name of the attachment) to verify  
>>> the document, it always opens up a blank, white window.  There is  
>>> a very long, ugly URL in the address bar of that window (probably  
>>> going to a hashed temp file), but nothing renders.
>>>
>>> Clicking the attachment name link does not even offer me to  
>>> download or open in another program, it just opens that blank  
>>> window.
>>>
>>> This is going to slow my workflow down something fierce.  Is there  
>>> anything I can do to fix this?
>>
>> I can verify that this works fine for me.  There was a bug related  
>> to this, but it was fixed for 5.0.15.
>>
>> commit e08081438cb1a09638897cabd1e46fb3e1120e59
>> Author: Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
>> Date:   Mon Oct 31 22:43:50 2011 -0600
>>
>>    Fix intermittent attachment loss when composing messages.
>>
>>    Fixed by implementing Serializable for IMP_Compose.
>>
>>    In the server access when attaching a file, the Horde_Mime_Part contains
>>    the data of the attachment, stored in a stream.  When saving the
>>    IMP_Compose object to the session, this part was being serialized with
>>    the entire contents of the data into the part.  Not good for session
>>    sizes, and this data was periodically being lost.  We already have the
>>    attachment data stored (either in VFS or filesystem), so we don't need
>>    this data to be stored in the MIME Part - scrub it before serializing.
>>
>>    For the record, the way to reproduce:
>>
>>    1. Use dynamic view
>>    2. Open compose screen
>>    3. Attach a file
>>    4. Insert at least one character in body (to trigger auto-save draft)
>>    5. Wait for an auto-save draft
>>    6. Try to view contents of attachment - error will be thrown.
>>
>> michael
>
> It looks like firefox 8 just hit portage today, so I installed that,  
> and re-tested.  It is still doing the same thing.  I logged into a  
> windows box with FF8, and it works as expected.  So it seems to be  
> related just to linux FF.  Are you using a Linux Desktop with FF8,  
> Michael?
>
> I don't think that this is necessarily a horde bug (it probably has  
> more to do with the linux port of FF), but if there is anything I  
> can do to get this working it would be of great help.

Right now I am using FF9 on Win7.

But the PDF plugin is known to be wonky at times on all platforms, at  
least for me.  I can load a PDF and nothing will happen - then I hit  
refresh and it will instantly load.  That's sort of what your issue  
feels like.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]