On Sep 24, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Paul Lesniewski wrote: > DO NOT REPLY OFF LIST. Sorry - I can't seem to follow all the rules. On all the other lists I belong to we commonly email each other directly when we don't intend the message to go to everyone. > >>> Don't top-post, thanks. >> >> Sorry - I'm on about 5 other lists dealing with servers and they all >> "top post" - i never knew that was such a sin > > Replying in context is the most useful and commonly accepted way of > communicating via email. Please don't bottom-post, either. No top posts - no bottom posts - no direct email - I think I've got it now. I didn't see any of those in the mailing list posting guidelines at http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines perhaps you could add them there... > >>>>> On Mon, September 24, 2007 3:15 pm, Chris Katz wrote: >>>>>> We've found that we can't attach documents that are created with >>>>>> Apples Pages 08 program using Squirrelmail. Our students use >>>>>> squirrelmail 1.4.10a. They will email assignments to their >>>>>> teachers >>>>>> as attachments. They can attach Word, Excel, text, really any >>>>>> other >>>>>> type of file including apple keynote files - it's just pages >>>>>> files >>>>>> that won't attach. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm very new to this list and appreciate any help. Has anyone >>>>>> seen >>>>>> this behavior before or can anyone point to a possible cause? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you, >>>>>> >>>>>> Chris >>>>> >>>>> It sounds more like a mailserver issue to me, rather than an SM >>>>> issue. My web host, >>>>> on which my mailserver and SquirrelMail run, blocks the attachment >>>>> of various file >>>>> types due to the possibility of malevolent code. Perhaps your >>>>> mailserver blocks the >>>>> file type you are attempting to attach. >>>> >>>> I didn't think that would be the problem because the attachment >>>> won't >>>> even appear in the list. You click Browse to locate the file, then >>>> click add - but the file doesn't get added to the list at the >>>> bottom >>>> of the page. Any other type of file seems to work fine. >>> >>> You need to watch your web server logs when you upload such a >>> file if >>> it doesn't appear to be uploaded. Otherwise, no one can help you, >>> because "it doesn't show up" is hardly enough information to go on. >> >> I also have spent about 10 minutes in my life working on this >> squirrel mail software as part of our OS X server and so I'm doing >> the best I can in explaining my problem. Excuse me please for not >> including enough information. >> >> There is nothing in the server log because it doesn't seem to get >> that far. Once you use the "Choose File" to locate the pages >> document, when you click add or send - nothing happens. No activity >> in the browser, nothing to the server. there is no response. > > If you click to the select file button, choose a file and it doesn't > show up in the file details input, then that's not a SquirrelMail > problem. It's either an issue with your browser or your O/S (on the > client). This is not the place that you're too likely to find help > regarding that, I think you're right. I think I'll look elsewhere. If anyone else thinks they can help me, please email me off list. It's ok with me. Thanks so much. > but maybe if you're lucky and you include more > information about the client where the file select dialog isn't > working, someone can guide you. > > If the file details do show up in the file input box, but clicking the > add button fails, then you need to look for errors on your server. > Either way, there's not much anyone can do for you until you provide > more details. > >>>> Also - we can send pages documents as attachments through the same >>>> mail server using a normal imap client just fine. >>>> >>>> Any other ideas? Or am I wrong and could this still some how be >>>> the >>>> mail server? >>> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. 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