L.D. (and any other interested parties),
On the message(s) in question.
What mime-type was used by the originating eMail program?
If I'm not mistaken, you will find that the sending eMailer used a
mime-type that did not match any of the settings in your mime.cfg
If this be the case:
The "fix" for this is to add the mime-type being used by the sender
into your copy of mime.cfg
examples:
image/x-jpeg JPG
graphics/jpg JPG
image/pictures-to-send-to-ld JPG
(proof that even the last one works)
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/ptstld.jpg
(caution... 427,701 bytes)
BTW,
No reply yet from Angelfire concerning my second request
that ZBM be added to /etc/mime-types :(
So, here's the ZBM with .ZIP as extension.
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/ptstld.zip
(1,295,518 byte .BMP zipped to only 42,968 bytes) :)
BTW2,
I detached the .JPG before sending this message.
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:19:08 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> Clarence,
> Sorry -- I have to disagree with you again.
> It is *NOT* "a new convention." IIRC, I was the first to notice that
> extensions were not being appended, but it appeared to be only for EXE
> extensions; *I* said that was a cool security measure. Only after I
> said that did xChaos jump in to say "It's not a bug, it's a feature."
> Well, IT'S A BUG!!
> If what you said were actually the case, that the extension has to be in
> MIME.CFG, that could be a feature. But that is NOT the case. Believe
> me, JPG is an "approved extension" in my mime.cfg file ... and it was
> JPG files I spend the other day fighting with.
> For awhile I thought the problem might be related to LFN, but double
> checking and renaming files to 8+3 in the original mail did *not* solve
> the problem.
> l.d.
> ====
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:58:36 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
>> L.D. Best wrote:
>>> Has anyone even bothered to figure out why sometimes the extension makes
>>> it to the unattached file, and sometimes it doesn't???
>> There is a new convention in place for security purposes (which I don't
>> much like) that results in downloaded files and attachments having NO
>> extension appended UNLESS it is in the list of approved extensions in
>> MIME.cfg.
>> The section that says: "I will save these with the proper extension".
>> I'm not a big security fan, and I already know that most users don't like
>> to tinker with mime.cfg - so this is obviously gonna be a problem.
--
Glenn
http://arachne.cz/
http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/
http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
[Attached file: proof.] (File "proof.jpg" (type image/pictures-to-send-to-ld,
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