Dear List I received the email below from Stuart Prescott.
He has pointed out one aspect that may be revealing - the PDFs with
the problem seem to have embedded graphics/images.
One user reported a problem with a gif attachment.
Corruption occurs when viewing directly in SM or saving file to disc and
then trying to view file.
Thanks
Stephen Carr
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Subject: Squirrelmail Bug: PDF mime type
From: Stuart Prescott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date sent: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:20:56 +1000
Hi Stephen,
I saw your recent post on sourceforge and have just spent the last two
days fighting squirrelmail for precisely the same reasons.
> Users reported only some PDFs had the problem.
I suspect it is actually some email clients rather than pdfs. (Although
I had fewer problems with text-only PDFs than with ones that had images)
My problem seems to be related to SM not including a correct MIME type
for the PDF (It's using "/" which is illegal in the mime-type RFC) and
my mailer (Evolution) was assuming that meant text/plain. Result:
corrupted attachment.
I've filed a bug against evolution for this behaviour:
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=63406
And I would do so against SM if I could work out how.
Feel free to pass this email onto one of the SM developers if you know
of one from the mailing list.
regards
Stuart
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