Alan in Toronto-2 wrote: > > On Thu, June 12, 2008 11:38 am, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: >>>> We are using squirrelmail version 1.4.8 >>>> >>>> When emailing a Word 2007 document with the ".docx" extension, Webmail >>>> mis-recognizes is as plain-text, causing it to be displayed as garbage >>>> text to end-users who click on the attachment name or the "View" link. >>>> >>>> ".docx" vs. ".doc": >>>> " >>>> TextAndPictures1.docx 42 k [ text/plain ] Download | View >>>> >>>> DOC-TextAndPictures2-DOC.doc 266 k [ application/msword ] Download >>> >>> Could it be that no one has yet updated the web server to recognize >>> .docx >>> extensions and how to handle them? >> >> webserver does not care about file types. User's browser tells to >> webserver that it is uploading text/plain file. > > I thought there was something about setting correct MIME type on webserver > for > various file types. > Try attaching .dwg file in Safari for Windows and in Firefox. Check mime type differences. If it was webserver thing, unrecognized .docx would be detected as LZW compressed data (application/zip). MS-OOXML and ODF formats are data containers packed with zip. -- Tomas -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Office-2007-documents-tp17800968p17803815.html Sent from the squirrelmail-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ----- 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
