--- 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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