I've run into this problem too with attachments. In some cases, it can 
be avoided by selecting the correct file type. It may seem a little odd,
but when you are attaching .xml or .xsl files, if you say they are 
plain text, the attachments come through OK.

Tom

Joseph Kesselman wrote:
> 
> When you send an attachment to Bugzilla, it gives that attachment a
> completely meaningless ,cgi filename. Please use the comments field to tell
> us what to rename the file back to before using it. In particular, if it's
> a .tar.gz file or other kind of archive other than a Windows-style zipfile,
> please be explicit about that.
> 
> BTW, for anyone who isn't familariar with those:  to unpack them on
> Windows, use
>       ren whatever.cgi whatever.tar.gz          (gunzip insists on seeing a
> .gz extension)
>       gunzip whatever.tar.gz              (produces whatever.tar)
>       tar -xvf whatever.tar               (produces however many files)
> gzip/gunzip is widely available as a free download. I presume there's a
> free implementation of tar somewhere, but I don't know where; I've been
> using one of the commercial ports of that tool.
> 
> While I'm writing: Attachments/inclusions that demonstrate a problem --
> preferably the smallest set of small files you can come up with that will
> still provoke the breakage -- are *TREMENDOUSLY* helpful in bug reports.
> Being able to actually watch the malfunction happen in a debugger makes
> finding and fixing problems much easier. I know, sometimes it's extremely
> difficult to reduce a huge testcase down to the key features that show the
> bug, and sometimes you really do need a large file to provoke a problem...
> but anything you can do to help us focus in on the specific cause of the
> glitch will speed up our response to it, so it's in everyone's interest to
> make the bug reports as specific and self-demonstrating as possible.
> 
> ______________________________________
> Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

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