From: Thomas Gropp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am testing Dovecot 1.1.3 at the moment to see if I can migrate from > UW-Imap(mbox) to Dovecot(maildir). Because I dont' want to influence the > production server I installed Dovecot on an ununsed computer with some > dummy-testusers using ssl and maildir. Installation was without any > problems and everything works fine with one exception: I cannot download > some attachments. If the attachment is a simple textfile or bitmap it's > ok, but everything else (pdf, zip, etc. - size doesn't matter) does not > work. Here is what happens: > > 1) I right-click on the attached file -> "save as" (using Thunderbird 2) > 2) I choose a target dir (no matter if local disk or nfs) > 3) the download-dialog pops up and says: "starting...."
I'd suggest trying first with another client to see if it's not an issue with Thunderbird, which in my opinion is not very good at handling attachments in imap.
