On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One single mac user is sending out strangely shaped attachments using > BOTH (!) SquirrelMail an Thunderbird. A Word document gets attached as: > > ------=_20080714204535_68907 > Content-Type: multipart/appledouble; name="Letsch Anne 0608 +A.doc" Seems like the browser is not correctly sending the right MIME type info to the server with the file upload. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleSingle Either the resource fork is missing (but still, who wants an AppleDouble mess anyway?) or the browser is not doing the right thing with the data fork when sent. But if this happens with Thunderbird too, it seems to be a bigger problem with the user's system. Maybe some Mac expert can explain, or maybe you'll need to spend some sleepless nights on Google. Please keep us posted after you get some sleep! > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Letsch Anne 0608 +A.doc" > > 0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACAAAAhgAAAAAAAAAA > EAAAiAAAAAEAAAD+////AAAAAIQAAACFAAAA//////////////////////////////////////// > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > ... > > And my MUA (mutt) displays the attachment as: > > I 1 <no description> [text/plain, 8bit, iso-8859-1, 1,0K] > A 2 Letsch Anne 0608 +A.doc [text/plain, 7bit, us-ascii, 93K] > > Other mac users can attach their files as expected (same name for > testing purposes): > > ------=_20080715101341_73521 > Content-Type: application/msword; name="Letsch Anne 0608 +A.doc" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Letsch Anne 0608 +A.doc" > > 0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAIQAAAAAAAAAA > EAAAIwAAAAEAAAD+////AAAAACAAAAD///////////////////////////////////////////// > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > ... > > I 1 <no description> [text/plain, 8bit, iso-8859-1, 0,9K] > A 2 Letsch Anne 0608 +A.doc [applica/msword, base64, 25K] > > Can somebody explain this? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ----- 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
