On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Tibor Dekany wrote:
Hi, I'm new to the list and I think bincimap looks very promising, but... Stefano Rivera wrote: Yeah, this IS (was) my major problem. It appears, when there is a "nonstandard" attachment (this is a MS Office file, a pdf, etc, not a jpeg), which is bigger than 30kB. I think it's a bug in Mozilla, since I have no problems with the attachments with Squirrelwebmail. I've found a workaround: in Mozilla, enter this URL: <about:config> look for "mail.imap.mime_parts_on_demand" and set it to "false" and/or look for "mail.imap.mime_parts_on_demand_threshold" and set it to a high enough number, so attachments this large get downloaded, i set it to "3000000".
I wonder if this means to have Mozilla parse the mime data instead of the IMAP server. I'd like to dig more into this, but can't reproduce the problem. Guess I'll have to start using Mozilla more :).
What Mailclient do you work with then?
I think Mozilla works like this (if you click on a mail to read it): If there is an attachment bigger than 30kB (mime_parts_on_demand_threshold) and if the attachment can't be displayed inline (e.g. not a gif, jpeg etc), then do not download the attachment, only "on demand". Now the problem is, that in the "attachments" box, there should be a list with the filenames of all attachments, and when you click on it, it should be possible to open or save_as the file.
Now with bincimap, instead of the real filenames, mozilla shows only "part1.2", "part1.3" etc. And Mozilla doesn't recognize the MIME type, so you can't open say a pdf file with acrobat. It opens it with the browser so you can read it in text mode :)
One more interesting thing is, that mozilla is able to download selected folders e.g. for notebookusers, so you have access to your mails even when offline. In this offline mode, the attachments behave "normal" again, they appear with the real filename and you can "autoopen" a pdf in acrobat again.
Strange: in Mozilla, the dates of the mails are correct, but with
Squirrelwebmail, I have for all mails the same date (this is the date
when I moved all mails from my old IMAP server to the bincimap server).
This makes sense to me. Moving/copying mails to a Maildir folder delegates a new internaldate to all messages. The Date header remains intact. Squirrelmail most likely uses internaldate, and those are reset on a COPY or APPEND. It's not Binc's fault, it's a thing with Maildir. :/ You will see the same thing with Courier-IMAP and Dovecot and any other Maildir client.
Aha, I switched to binc from uw-imapd. (because I didn't like the flat-file-format (mbox).) So in search for a useful imapd, I came over binc and thought I should give it a try (since courier seemed to me to complicated).
Thanks for your great work,
Tibor
