Re: [Evolution] Bizarre problem with attachments

[Andy McMullin <Andy rickham net>]

> From: Mathieu Masse <mathieu_masse sympatico ca>
> To: evolution lists ximian com
> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:28:57 -0400
> Subject: [Evolution] Bizarre problem with attachements
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> 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,

Yup. One of the options with Windows 2000 (and XP) is to NOT display
known file extensions. If your friend turned that option on, then he
won't see the ".pdf" or ".doc".

When he adds the extension manually, he actually ends up with a file
called "xxxxx.pdf.pdf" and the system hides the second one.

Ask him to go into tools -> folder options -> view, and then untick the
box "Hide file extensions for known file types". 

Hope this helps.

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Andy, G8TQH
http://www.rickham.net/