Re: [Evolution] Bizarre problem with attachements

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

this is likely an Exchange or Outlook "feature".

definitely not an Evolution bug.

Jeff

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 22:28, Mathieu Masse wrote:
> Hey list,
>
>     A friend told me about this problem today. Looks like everytime I
> send him an email with an attachment he gets it correctly except for
> the fact that the attachment loses the extension. What I mean is for
> example if I attach a file called file.pdf he gets the correct file
> but named file (notice the lack of extension .pdf). If he manually
> renames the file (adding the .pdf) the file is ok. Note that this seem
> to happen with different extension (he can confirm it happened with
> .doc, .zip and .pdf).
>
>     Here is a little info on the system. I am running Red Hat 9.0 with
> Evo 1.4.5 using only POP servers and he is on Windows 2000 with
> Outlook 2000. He also told me that it had been happening for a while,
> this means that it was happening with previous version of Evo. From
> the timeframe he told me it looks that this started after I upgraded
> to 1.4.2 (I went from 1.2.5 to 1.4.2).
>
>     As anyone else seen this,
>
>         Mathieu
>
> -- 
> Mathieu Massé M.Sc.
>
> Homer Simpson's brain says: 
> Mmmm, purple.