Re: attachments renamed to ATT0000*.dat

Kenneth Fordham writes:

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> I have a mail server installed on FreeBSD 4.9 that has been running fine 
> for months.
> 
> About 5-6 days ago people started saying that there attachments are not 
> showing up, this is what happens.
> 
> If I were to send a PDF attachment named test.pdf to my ISP e-mail account 
> via sqwebmail it would show up as ATT000014.dat.
> 
> I can resave this file with the PDF extension and open it just fine.
> 
> This only seems to happen when using sqwebmail, if we send via outlook 
> everything is normal.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this before?

sqwebmail does not rename any attachments.

If the attachment filename contains certain punctuation characters, or 
characters outside the Latin alphabet, sqwebmail uses the mechanism defined 
by RFC 2231 to encode the attachment filename.

"ATT000014.dat" looks like something that you'll get if a mail client does 
not understand the attachment's filename, and thus defaults to a 
randomly-generated one.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQBAXl85x9p3GYHlUOIRAj/qAJ0USbbZjAEbG4aWMJ5poqvM5Y7yiwCfb9XY
lJou8TVSqsQ+1rBpMiAae+4=
=XPnH
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----