URL: <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?19627>
Summary: PDF/DOC Mail Attachments from Macs get archived as .bin Project: MHonArc Submitted by: simoneves Submitted on: Wednesday 18/04/07 at 11:53 Category: MIME Filter Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: Undesired Behavior Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Operating System: Linux Perl Version: 5.8.4 Component Version: 2.6.15 Fixed Release: _______________________________________________________ Details: I'm running MHonArc 2.6.15. I would test this with 2.6.16, but I don't have the time to do the upgrade right now, and there's no mention of anything related to this on the bug list, fixed or otherwise. It seems that mails sent from Mac Mail on OSX containing binary attachments, most usually .doc and .pdf files, are archived as binXXXXXXXXX.bin instead of docXXXXXXX.doc, pdfXXXXXXXX.pdf etc. This of course means that the attachment files from the archive cannot be correctly interpreted by the reader unless the file is downloaded manually and renamed. Such attachments sent as part of mails to the same list from Outlook, Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows, or Gmail on either Mac or Windows, are stored and named correctly. Is there a fix for this, perhaps as a separate MIME Filter plug-in. I considered writing a post-processing script to rename such files (and their references in the message HTML) but this is impossible without knowing the original file type, which seems to be lost, if indeed it is obtained correctly in the first place. Please advise. Simon Eves _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?19627> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.nongnu.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE MHONARC-DEV