On March 10, 1999 at 15:06, "McCartney, Wade" wrote:
> MHonArc 2.3.3 is working for me, but I'm having trouble with the usename and
> subdir argument-strings, and the icons are not working. The main problem is
> that attachments to email messages that have the same name (e.g.,
> comments.doc) overwrite the previous attachment with the same name
> (comments.doc).
>From the MIMEFILTERS resource page of the documentation:
usename Use (file)name attribute for determining name of derived file.
Use this option with caution since it can lead to filename
conflicts and security problems (however, see the subdir
^^^^^^^^^
option).
You may want to use the "usenameext" option instead.
> Some Details:
> * Subdirectories are only created for certain messages but I cannot
> view/download the attachments to messages msg00005 and msg00006 in IE40, but
> I can open them in Netscape405. For example:
> http://www.knowledgeispower.org/output/msg00019.dir/Index11-03-98.xls
Subdirectories are only created when attachments exist and the
"subdir" option is specified (assuming the m2h_external::filter
is being used).
As for the browser issue, that is outside of MHonArc's realm.
> * Msg000030, 31, and 32 each contained a different file called
> comments.doc but the comments.doc in msg00032 (the last one) overwrote the
> first two files.
Yep. And the doc warns about this.
> * Msg000020 came out strange.
> http://www.knowledgeispower.org/output/msg00020.html There were eleven
> attachments but only two of them ended up in the msg000020.dir.
>
> * Here's the MimeArgs portion of my resource file:
> <MIMEARGS>
> application/msword:usename
> m2h_external::filter;usename subdir
> </MIMEARGS>
Here is the problem. From the MIMEARGS resource page:
If an argument string is defined for a filter explicitly and for a
content-type that the filter processes, the content-type string
will override the filter string.
^^^^^^^^
In your case, the options for application/msword take precedence
(and does *NOT* augment the filter options). So, msword data will always
be put in the same directory as the message while all other attachments
will go in a sub-directory.
Add the "subdir" option to application/msword.
--ewh
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