The deal is that it happens behind some firewalls. We can't be telling everyone
you have to do this and that in order to get your emails. The onus is clearly
on IPSwitch to fix IMAIL. I thank you for your diligence in trying to solve
this from a client perspective but it is not a viable way to procede. I am just
trying to bug IPSwitch in every way I can to simply do a URLEncode on the
filenames. Read my next email for another example.
Vaughn Thurman wrote:
> Am I missing something? In an earlier post you said that people not behind
> the proxy server who were also using Netscape were NOT having this problem.
> That is why I was following up on that issue. Has that changed?
> Trying to be helpful and understand the problem as it seems to be working
> here for me using Netscape 4.6 behind MS Proxy 2.0 using Winsock redirect
> only. I have had Netscape problems with spaces in file names before, but
> maybe I am doing something wrong here. Could you forward one of those
> broken e-mails w/attachment to me off-line? I will try to pick it up using
> the Netscape browser...
> -V
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris ten Den <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 11:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spaces in Filename
>
> > It didn't do anything. It also wouldn't matter. This is going to be a
> public
> > service. Other people are going to have this problem too.
> >
> > Vaughn Thurman wrote:
> >
> > > Did you check the settings I suggested on your proxy setup? What
> happened
> > > with that?
> > > -V
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Chris ten Den <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 10:52 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spaces in Filename
> > >
> > > > This is what I don't understand here. This fix is incredibly simple.
> The
> > > > users that can use spaces "SHOULD" be allowed to use spaces. If Imail
> > > lets
> > > > you upload files with spaces then you should be able to download those
> > > files.
> > > > No matter what browser or platform. If Other systems don't allow
> spaces,
> > > it
> > > > is then up to them to remove the spaces, or have some talk with the
> person
> > > > sending the files about keeping the spaces. This should only lie
> under
> > > the
> > > > EMAIL etiquette rules...definitely not HARD and FAST rules.
> > > >
> > > > tom farrell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi...
> > > > >
> > > > > >So is anything going to be done about the spaces in the filenames
> of
> > > > > >attachments in regard to Netscape. I don't want to see this issue
> to
> > > be
> > > > > >blown off as negligible.
> > > > >
> > > > > In much of the computing world, spaces are delimiters (like the
> > > > > semicolons in DOS pathnames). Mac and Win9xNT allow spaces in
> > > > > filesnames, but many system don't. This may be more of an "educate
> > > > > the user" issue than a "fix the software" one.
> > > > >
> > > > > tom
> > > > >
> > > > > tom farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > pojoaque valley schools
> > > > > pojoaque nm 87501
> > > > > "Beauty is in the i of the Beholder"
> > > > > (Julia Mandelbrot)
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