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On Tuesday 17 July 2007 15:15:25 Chris Haumesser wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to help a client improve its list archives. They've been using > mailman with pipermail for many years, and pipermail is problematic in many > ways. > > We like the look and feel of mod_mbox, and would like to deploy it. > However, it doesn't seem to handle common attachments correctly (as of svn > rev 556672). > > Here's an example from an apache list (check the jpeg attachment): > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ws-axis-user/200704.mbox/%3C460FD7 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In my testing, I've had similar results with jpg, png, gif, and pdf files. > mod_mbox seems to recognize the mime parts/types, but doesn't actually > serve up the attachment properly. Text/plain and text/html seem to be ok. > > The only relevant info I've found in Googling is the following from a > couple of summers ago - http://blog.bulix.org/index.php/blog/494: > > --- > mod_mbox has now a brand new and complete MIME parser. The attachment > downloading is still to be implemented, but it's really no big deal > considering the data structures generated by the > mbox_mime_decode_multipart() function. > --- > > Is the above still an accurate statement of attachment handling status in > mod_mbox? If so, does anyone know what it would take to add this > functionality? Anyone interested in helping us for a modest bounty? > > If adding the needed attachment handling is impractical, does anyone have > alternative list archival solutions (aside from the usual suspects - > pipermail, mhonarc, lurker). > > > Thanks, > > > -C-
