On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Tibor Dekany wrote: >Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: >> 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". >> 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?
pine, Evolution, kmail, Outlook and Outlook Express. And now, Mozilla also. :-) >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. I found the bug - Binc does not handle FETCH requests for MIME parts correctly. I'm fixing this and releasing it as soon as I'm confident that it's done. This is the reason why Mozilla doesn't show the proper list of attachments. >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, Thanks! I hope the next release will remove the works functional bugs. :-) Andy -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | Nil desperandum
