Re: [Evolution] Can't trust Evolution to send big attachments...

[Mike Barnes <mike grouse net au>]

On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 19:31, Rebecca J. Walter wrote:
> This is interesting actually.  I can send tar.gz files without a problem
> (entire manuals).  A few days ago, I tried to send a .doc file (created
> in star office) to a customer and it totally broke.  The file she got
> was then called "file.bin" or something like that.

Actually, I can shed a _tiny_ bit of light on this one - I sent a PDF to
someone who complained that she couldn't read it. Since I'm her local PC
support, I went and checked - sure enough, her software was trying to
display the PDF inline.

Evolution had sent the attachment with the file type noted as
text/plain. I meant to track this down a bit more and file a proper bug
report (Gnome sure knows what a PDF is and what file extension it has,
and what apps to throw it to), but I never got around to it. I bet
something similar is happening to you. The attachment is probably fine,
but the MIME file type is stuffed.

Actually, could the person who started this thread qualify how large
"too large" is, roughly? I've got a heap of disk space and bandwidth
here, and I can test it out.

Mike.