Some progress and a work around for lost attachments

[Jack Repenning <jr...@collab.net>]

Since the Tigris upgrade, some people have noticed attachments  
silently disappearing from mail (or, being replaced by an extra copy  
of the message body).

We've just spotted what seems to trigger this misbehavior. Someone's  
working on fixing it now, but there's also a work-around that I wanted  
to forward to y'all. Maybe this will prevent some problems in the mean  
time.

The lossage happens when text attachments are "inlined" (so they  
display as if they were part of the message body). It appears that  
only Thunderbird actually does this. It also appears that there is a  
configuration setting to make it stop. Thunderbird users might want to  
set this, until we can get the site fixed up.

Details at http://www.gijsk.com/blog/2007/06/disable-thunderbird-inline-attachments/

Our testing was done with the setting "2" ("Don't inline plain-text  
attachments, but fancy text can be inlined"). This seems to provide  
the optimal handling (doesn't fool our poor DS, but does allow some  
inlining).

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Jack Repenning
jackrepenning@tigris.org
Domain Administrator
http://www.tigris.org

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