powermail-discuss Digest #2973 - Friday, March 9, 2012
PM mangling attachment names from Hotmail
by "Ben Kennedy" <[email protected]>
Re: PM mangling attachment names from Hotmail
by "Graham B" <[email protected]>
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Subject: PM mangling attachment names from Hotmail
From: "Ben Kennedy" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:24:31 -0800
Hey all,
I've been noticing that when I receive attachments from a correspondent using
Hotmail that PM fails to heed the attached filenames and instead re-names the
files equivalent to the message's Subject line. This is irritating and
irreversible.
I'm not a MIME expert, but on quick glance, the sub-part headers look
reasonable; e.g.:
--=_mintier-9426-1331185362-0001-2
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="Changes to RMN Prototype.docx"
Content-Type:
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document;
name="Changes to RMN Prototype.docx"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
UEsDBBQABgAIAAAAIQAGHS5yiAEAANkFAAATAAgCW0NvbnRlbnRfVHlwZXNdLnhtbCCiBAIooAAC
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
[...]
The attachments are properly handled by Mail.app. But when I download the
message with PM, the attachment is not saved as indicated, but rather named
after the message subject (sans extension). This gets worse of course when
there are several attachments.
I should perhaps do some testing with hotmail.com and try to narrow down the
circumstances. Has anyone else had a similar problem?
cheers,
-b
--
Ben Kennedy, chief magician
Zygoat Creative Technical Services
http://www.zygoat.ca
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Subject: Re: PM mangling attachment names from Hotmail
From: "Graham B" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 13:55:52 +1100
Hi
Now you mention it, yes, although very few of my correspondents have Hotmail
addresses.
I don't remember when it started, looking back I have a message on the 12th
June 2011 with an attachment that was called <image 0011.jpg> and a message on
the 13th June from the same person that had an attachment named after the
subject heading, and all since then have followed that pattern.
So what did I do on the evening of the 12th that changed things? I have no
idea!
I have nothing to compare it with as I have never checked that account on any
other email programme
Cheers
Graham
>Hey all,
>
>I've been noticing that when I receive attachments from a correspondent
>using Hotmail that PM fails to heed the attached filenames and instead
>re-names the files equivalent to the message's Subject line. This is
>irritating and irreversible.
>
>I'm not a MIME expert, but on quick glance, the sub-part headers look
>reasonable; e.g.:
>
>--=_mintier-9426-1331185362-0001-2
>Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="Changes to RMN Prototype.docx"
>Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-
>officedocument.wordprocessingml.document;
> name="Changes to RMN Prototype.docx"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
>UEsDBBQABgAIAAAAIQAGHS5yiAEAANkFAAATAAgCW0NvbnRlbnRfVHlwZXNdLnhtbCCiBAIooAAC
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>[...]
>
>The attachments are properly handled by Mail.app. But when I download
>the message with PM, the attachment is not saved as indicated, but
>rather named after the message subject (sans extension). This gets
>worse of course when there are several attachments.
>
>I should perhaps do some testing with hotmail.com and try to narrow down
>the circumstances. Has anyone else had a similar problem?
>
>cheers,
>
>-b
>
>--
>Ben Kennedy, chief magician
>Zygoat Creative Technical Services
>http://www.zygoat.ca
>
>
>
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