thanks for the help. fyi
IE 5.0 and above seem to work OK
but IE 4.0, even with sp2 does not.
I assume all vers of netscape are OK
This still means that 32% of my 12000 odd
customers will be affected.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Varshavchik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:06 PM
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: attachments in sqwebmail
>
>
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Andrew Gray wrote:
>
> > client and opening the attachment) but when previewing
> > from withing sqwebmail I get browser errors.
> >
> > this is the exact error message I am getting
> > http://gray.ballarat.net.au/neomail/sqweb-error.gif
>
> It's an MSIE bug. Complain to Microsoft.
>
> > it only does it when I try to preview excell files. the
> > text files I have tried both worked OK. Is this a mime
> > problem perhaps.
>
> It's a MIME problem deep inside the innards of IE. Microsoft believes
> that they are exempt from always having to use the MIME content-type of
> the downloaded document, and instead should figure out the content type
> from the URL. If it can't figure out the content type from the URL, MSIE
> will toss its cookies. Use Netscape.
>
> > Where is the temp dir for files that are
> > uploaded as attachments ??
>
> Uploading and downloading are two different things. When attachments are
> uploaded, all the temporary scratch files are created in Maildir/tmp.
>
> --
> Sam
>
>
