Re: [Evolution] Bizarre problem with attachements

[Mathieu Masse <mathieu_masse sympatico ca>]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 08:33, Dan Winship wrote:
> >     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.
> ...
> > 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).
>
> Are you sure it's not Outlook just hiding the extension?
>
> It's possible that the exact headers we use changed slightly between
> 1.2.5 and 1.4.2, which may trigger different behavior in Outlook. But
> the extension is still there. You can go to your Sent folder and do View
> -> Message Display -> Show Email Source to see exactly what was sent.
    You are right it could just be Outlook hiding the extension, since
when looking a the Email Source on my side I still see the the file name
as the extension, I will tell my friend to try and take a look on is
side. It's just a weird problem, why would Outlook strip out the
extension?!?

    I will keep the list posted on the subject.

        Mathieu

> -- Dan
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