Bill Bedford wrote: >I have a mailing list where any attachments are scrubbed. This for the >most part works very well, however some list member have complained >that they are not are to save images when they are viewed from the url >presented at the bottom of a message. The image will open in a web >browser, but attempts to save the image seem to result in either an >error message or an empty file. It seem that this occurs only to PC >users, Mac users have no difficulty in saving to disk.
This is normally a function of the MUA (mail client) viewing the message or the web browser viewing the message in the archive, but Mailman might be involved if the link to the stored attachment doesn't have a 'correct' extension. Depending on the attachment's name and MIME type in the original message and Mailman's configuration, images can get stored with an extension such as '.bin' which is inappropriate for the content. >Can anyone offer an explanation I could pass on to my members, and a >work round, if there is one. The explananation depends on the MUA involved. One potential work-around is to view the archived message with a web browser and right-click the link to the attachment and chose 'save target' or whatever the browser calls it. Then it may be necessary to edit the extension (e.g., change .bin to .jpg) as appropriate for the actual content. It's hard to be more specific without more detail such as the Name: and Type: and the extension in the URL: from the 'non-text attachment was scrubbed' message. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
