Joe wrote: >ted jordan wrote: > > >>this used to work...not sure why it's failing now. >> >>whenever I put on an attachment, it doesn't convert it properly. For example, if I >attach a PDF file (or any other type), when the recipient receives the mail, instead >of it being a nicely attached file sitting in the "attachments" window, all you see >is the raw data below my typed message. >> >>I'll attempt to attach a small file here for u to see. >> >>I have checked my mime-types. They all appear to be okay, and this appears to only >help me if I have incoming messages. The problem started after I changed my laptop >from Mandrake 8.1 to Redhat 7.2. >> >>thanx >>ted >> >> >I can see the problem, but have no idea how to solve it in Redhat. The source of your >message shows - > >Content-Type: text/plain; >name="W0929421.pdf" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 >Content-Disposition: inline; >filename="W0929421.pdf" > >The 'Content-Type' indicates that the attachment is 'plain/text' and thats the way it >is displayed in Netscape 4.x. Should be something like 'application/pdf'. Maybe >someone will come along and suggest a fix. Are you creating the pdf's? Possibly a >setting controlling this in the software producing the files. > > What happens if you try to open a PDF in Mozilla? Does it display it as text? Then there's a MIME type mismatch somewhere in your system. Unfortunately I don't know Linux but you might be able to work around it by editing your helper application preferences.
