On 9/24/07, Chris Katz <ckatz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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... Fair enough > >>>>> 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. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
