I am not on a network nut get the same error: I can not send attachments any other than .rwi formats - they :"fail". Ordinary text messages without attachments go through OK. I have tried all reasonable methods of fixing this. How can I check properly why theses attachments fail to send my mail? Gedeon
Parish wrote: > Jay Garcia wrote: > >> Seth Spitzer wrote: >> >>> This sounds like http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55591 >>> >>> -Seth >>> >>> Parish wrote: >>> >>>> 0.9.4 (same in 0.9.2): Click the attachments pane, browse to a >>>> another computer on the network, select a file, the file name >>>> appears in the attachments pane, but click send and I get an "Error >>>> sending mail - check your Mail/News settings". >>>> >>>> Is this a known problem or have I got something set up wrong? >>>> >>>> TIA, >>>> >>>> Parish >>>> >>> >> >> Interesting, I have no problem attaching files located on one of my >> Novell Servers here, namely the Netware 5 server and now my new >> experimaental Netware 6 server. Can even attach files hosted on >> another workstation on the same segment as well as another segment. >> >> I'm curious as to the Network OS the reporter is using. Maybe a >> *permissions* factor is involved here, dunno. >> >> I think we need more details ... >> > > I have Mozilla running on W2K-SP2 and the remote machines are running > NT4, W2K, or Solaris (Sparc) running Samba. The problem manifests > itself when attaching files located on any of these. > > I checked out the bug report that Seth referred to and it certainly > appears to be the same thing. One of the Additional Comments mentions > the same error if you try to save the message (after failing to send > it) in the Drafts or Templates folder; I see this as well. > > Thanks for the help, I'll keep an eye on the status of that bug. > > Regards, > > Parish. >
