Re: sqwebmail vs. msie: boxes instead of content ???

* James A Baker <[email protected]> [2004:05:07:12:41:30-0500] scribed:
> On May 7, 2004, at 11:05, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> 
> >Compiled from source: sqwebmail-4.0.3
> >
> >Please, look at:
> >
> >    <http://platinumdev.com/cgi-bin/sqwebmail>
> >
> >Yes, it works.
> >
> >Yes, with Mozilla and Firefox, everything appears as expected.

Hehe . . .

Ugh, you're right, that wasn't the way it ought to look ;<

> >However, with msie v6.x, something is missing:
> >
> >[1] Weird boxes around the top two (2) lines (SqWebMail Copyright and
> >    USERID/PASSWORD);
> >
> >[2] Tiny white boxes at the extreme corners of the grey login box;
> >
> >[3] Once logged in, the Folders page exhibits
> >    [a] weird boxes where top menu vertical bar dividers should be, and
> >    [b] weird boxes (Permissions, Folders) to left of folder radio
> >        buttons.
> >
> >I have tried to read everything in INSTALL, and I searched the archives
> >of this list.  I am hoping that this is a quick fix, since I want to
> >show sqwebmail -- initial default install -- to my associates today.
<snip />

> It does?
> 
> Well, it sure doesn't look like _I_ would expect.
> 
> But that's because none of your images are showing up. ( 
> /webmail/graytopleft.png - gives a 404 error. )
> 
> Try making sure, first, that the webmail/images folder got installed 
> properly -- either by the build process if you supplied the appropriate 
> options, or at least manually afterwards if you didn't.
> 
> Then, if that seems to be correct, make sure that Apache is configured 
> to serve the contents of the installed images folder as "/webmail/" -- 
> and update your config and restart Apache if it isn't yet.
> 
> -jab

OK, now that I have httpd.conf setup like this:

    Alias /webmail/ /usr/share/apache/icons/

Now, it does look much better, even in MSIE ;>

Thank you.

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