On Thu, June 12, 2008 12:14 pm, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: > > > 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. Yes! Of course, you're right. I read the original post quickly and mistakenly thought it was talking about problems downloading the files. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
