--- On Wed, 3/24/10, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Jeremy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MLUG] Imap files basename  (slightly off topic)
To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 7:14 PM

Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
> Using Thunderbird and Outlook 2007,  I have noted the following
>
> If a file is attached to an email, and the file name is  of the form
>
> this.is.a.file.doc 
>
> I noted that the downloaded attachment name is converted to "this is a 
> file.doc". That is, all the dots but the right most are converted to 
> spaces.
>
> Is this a normal to strip the base-name of  the dots?
>
> Why do I ask, well   We are wrapping a file with another name ,
> for example
>
> For the file "this.is.a.file.doc", it  is wrapped to  
> "this.is.a.file.doc.encr".  Encr is now the suffix and  in the 
> directory entry we end up with is "this is a file doc.encr".  The true 
> suffix is not known since an embedded file may not have a suffix.
>
> Ideas please. Is this normal behaviour?
>

Just to note this does not happen for me on tbird on linux, postfix and 
dovecot. It sounds like a server setting, possibly a virus scanner...

Jeremy
 
Uninstalled the anti-virus stuff and it still occurs. It does not occur with 
pop3 handling
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