Robby Griffin wrote: > >This is pretty lame. I run Mailman in an environment where most of the >users use Lotus Notes on Macs, and in our case Mailman converted the >vast majority of their attachments to .bin or .obj because Notes sent >most things as application/octet-stream. PDF file? .bin. Excel file? >..bin. Word doc? .bin. Argh. Users can NOT figure out how to open these >files (or even what application they were supposed to have been >openable in) after getting them from the archives. Most of them had >Stuffit Expander launch automatically (on the .bin file, duhr) and were >generally confused.
I agree, but why is Lotus Notes sending PDFs, etc. as application/octet-stream instead of application/pdf, etc? -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org
