Matthew Ortner (personal) wrote: > > Hi, > > I am new to SquirrelMail and this list (and PHP for that matter) but I > have installed and have been using: > > SquirrelMail 1.4.0 > conf.pl shows configuration file version and not SquirrelMail version. Same version is used for all 1.4.x SquirrelMail versions. Are you sure that you are using SquirrelMail 1.4.0? > against hMailServer 4.4.1-B273 > on a Windows 2003 server > and IIS 6.0 > and ActivePERL 5.8.8.519 > and PHP 5.2.5.5 (isapi) > > for the past couple of weeks. > > It was recently brought to my attention that when a user receives an > attachment while using SquirrelMail, they click the Attachment or > Download link, and their browser just displays 'garbled text' as they > say, which appears to be the MIME text of their attachment. I have > confirmed this in Internet Explorer 7 as well as Firefox 2, and I have > spent several hours trying to find any mention of this in the > SquirrelMail documentation as well as on Google in general. The same > user can retrieve their attachments using a mail client once they are > back at their desk. I'm sure I missed something during the setup, > but > I have gone over the setup instructions from several sources and don't > see anything that seems to be missed. > > One more item that may be interesting is that the Attachments folder is > empty on the server. There is plenty of data in the Data folder, but > nothing in the Attachments folder. Although I do see the MIME text > of > the correct documents (with PDF or Word or Excel indicators) when I > click on download in SquirrelMail. I don't believe that I am using > any > plug-ins or non standard configurations (unless they are installed by > default). > > I did try to add the MIME types to the IIS server manually, with a type > of application/octet-stream, but to no avail. They are being served > by > IIS, but they appear as MIME text and will not prompt for, or allow a > download (even when choosing to 'save destination as') > > Has anyone else run into this issue? Any assistance or pointers > would > be greatly appreciated, and I apologize if I have made any errors or > omissions with my request. > Have you tried to turn off all enabled plugins? Could you check your server logs for PHP "Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by" errors? -- Tomas -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SquirrelMail-Attachments-are-all-viewed-in-the-browser-as-Text-%28MIME%29-tp15961517p15976532.html Sent from the squirrelmail-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
