[Mailman-Users] Mailman drops extension of attachment

[Jon Carnes]

This *exact* problem was discussed in the archives awhile back. If
memory serves me correctly the problem then was that the email client
used a generic type of mime file type identifier rather than a more
proper one that identified the file type properly as pdf.

Mailman then treats this as a generic file and renames it with a generic
extension.  A patch was generated so that Mailman no longer changed the
file extension.  A look in the archives might prove useful to you.

Jon Carnes

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 16:57, gagel at cnc.bc.ca wrote:
> I have not had any response on this. Does anyone have any info they
> can share with me on it?
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message Follows -----
> > We just sent out a message to our employees. There calling because
> > they can't open the pdf attachment.
> > 
> > Looking at it, it looks like the .pdf part is missing from the
> > attachment name in the message. If you know what to do you can open
> > the attachment. But the browser does not know what to do with it and
> > most of our users don't either.
> > 
> > Is there a fix for this?
> > 
> > Suggestions, ideas?
> > 
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