[Mailman-Users] Mailman drops extension of attachment

[gagel at cnc.bc.ca]

I tried searching the archives but found nothing about it. I guess my
search terms were not good enough.

It is not a problem with the mail client. I did debug tracing on the
clients to see what was being passed before I submitted a bug report.
The client identifies the attachment correctly as a pdf. The problem
is that the length of the attachment name seems to be to long for
mailman to process correctly.

Sending an attachment called:
"PRESIDENT'S NEWSLETTER NO. 2 - 2003-2004 ACADEMIC December.pdf"
Results in one called:
"PRESIDENT'S NEWSLETTER NO. 2 - 2003-2004 ACADEMIC"

The recieving client can still open the missnamed attachment if they
know what to select as a program to open it with. Its just that the
extension is missing and that only happens after going through
mailman. It does not happen if it is sent directly to a user.

----- Original Message Follows -----
> 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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