I tried searching the archives but found nothing about it. I guess my search terms were not good enough.
It is not a problem with the mail client. I did debug tracing on the clients to see what was being passed before I submitted a bug report. The client identifies the attachment correctly as a pdf. The problem is that the length of the attachment name seems to be to long for mailman to process correctly. Sending an attachment called: "PRESIDENT'S NEWSLETTER NO. 2 - 2003-2004 ACADEMIC December.pdf" Results in one called: "PRESIDENT'S NEWSLETTER NO. 2 - 2003-2004 ACADEMIC" The recieving client can still open the missnamed attachment if they know what to select as a program to open it with. Its just that the extension is missing and that only happens after going through mailman. It does not happen if it is sent directly to a user. ----- Original Message Follows ----- > This *exact* problem was discussed in the archives awhile back. If > memory serves me correctly the problem then was that the email > client used a generic type of mime file type identifier rather than > a more proper one that identified the file type properly as pdf. > > Mailman then treats this as a generic file and renames it with a > generic extension. A patch was generated so that Mailman no longer > changed the file extension. A look in the archives might prove > useful to you. > > Jon Carnes > > On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 16:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have not had any response on this. Does anyone have any info > > they can share with me on it? > > > > > > ----- Original Message Follows ----- > > > We just sent out a message to our employees. There calling > > > because they can't open the pdf attachment. > > > > > > Looking at it, it looks like the .pdf part is missing from the > > > attachment name in the message. If you know what to do you can > > > open the attachment. But the browser does not know what to do > > > with it and most of our users don't either. > > > > > > Is there a fix for this? > > > > > > Suggestions, ideas? > > > > > > ==================== > > > Kevin W. Gagel > > > Network Administrator > > > (250) 561-5848 local 448 > > > (250) 562-2131 local 448 > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca > > > Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > Mailman-Users mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > > > Searchable Archives: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > > > > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Unsubscribe or change your options at > > > > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/gagel%40cnc.bc.ca > > > > ==================== > > Kevin W. Gagel > > Network Administrator > > (250) 561-5848 local 448 > > (250) 562-2131 local 448 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca > > Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mailman-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > > Searchable Archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe or change your options at > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com > ==================== Kevin W. Gagel Network Administrator (250) 561-5848 local 448 (250) 562-2131 local 448 -------------------------------------------------------------- The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
