Sending attachments not working (MIME/file types)

[jharris3434]

RC 0.1 Stable, PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 5, hMailServer, and IIS6 on W2K3 server. Using Firefox 2.0.0.12

I should note first that RC is handling attachments sent with other mail clients perfectly.

When I upload/send pattachments with RC, however, RC isn't handling them properly at all. I have set the attachment and memory limits up, I've made sure the temp directory has the proer permissions. Most of the time the attachment does get attached.

The main problem, however, is that it doesn't seem to be recognizing/packaging filetypes correctly. The only attachment type it does handle correctly is .txt. PDFs, images, etc do get attached, but when they're viewed with a different mail client, such as Thunderbird, they usually come up attached as .txt, regardless of what they are, with the resultant gibberish. When viewed from RC they show up in unpredictable ways, and certainly don't open properly.

There are no errors in the logs.

I've attached a couple of different files of different types for testing purposes.

[jharris3434]

This should be in milestone 0.1.1.

[francesco_r]

I have had the same problem (see ticket #1484887) but using Centos Linux. I have resolved changing the path of mime_magic in main.inc.php. For example rc default is: $rcmail_configmime_magic? = '/usr/share/misc/magic'; and i changed in: $rcmail_configmime_magic? = '/usr/share/file/magic.mime';

[jharris3434]

Replying to francesco_r:

I have had the same problem (see ticket #1484887) but using Centos Linux. I have resolved changing the path of mime_magic in main.inc.php. For example rc default is: $rcmail_configmime_magic? = '/usr/share/misc/magic'; and i changed in: $rcmail_configmime_magic? = '/usr/share/file/magic.mime';

This did not work for me.

[zeno.popovici]

Garbled Result

[zeno.popovici]

I have the very same problem. Files get corrupted when sent from RC Mail. There are no problems when receiving attachments from other mail clients.

[francesco_r]

Replying to jharris3434:

Replying to francesco_r:

I have had the same problem (see ticket #1484887) but using Centos Linux. I have resolved changing the path of mime_magic in main.inc.php. For example rc default is: $rcmail_configmime_magic? = '/usr/share/misc/magic'; and i changed in: $rcmail_configmime_magic? = '/usr/share/file/magic.mime';

This did not work for me.

Did you set the correct path for windows? my example is for linux, not windows. So you must set the correct directory and magic file of your apache installation.

[rosali]

Seems to be the same issue as my ticket #1484914 (including an approache to solve it)

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[jharris3434]

Replying to francesco_r:

Replying to jharris3434:

Replying to francesco_r:

I have had the same problem (see ticket #1484887) but using Centos Linux. I have resolved changing the path of mime_magic in main.inc.php. For example rc default is: $rcmail_configmime_magic? = '/usr/share/misc/magic'; and i changed in: $rcmail_configmime_magic? = '/usr/share/file/magic.mime';

This did not work for me.

Did you set the correct path for windows? my example is for linux, not windows. So you must set the correct directory and magic file of your apache installation.

Here is what I did. First, I followed these instructions to make sure fileinfo() was working correctly with magic.mime:

http://kpable.com.au/index.php/20070715/using-fileinfo-functions/

Using that little PHP script with my setup is showing me that indeed, everything is working. In my main.inc.php, I changed the variable to:

$rcmail_config['mime_magic'] = 'C:\PHP\extras\magic\magic.mime';

(That directory has read & execute permissions for IIS, which I think should be enough.)

It's not working properly. To clarify: Thunderbird isn't understanding the attachments that RC sends. RC is sort of understanding the attachments RC sends. (RC understands the attachments other mail programs send perfectly.) I'll enumerate them here:

Attachments sent with RC, opened in Thunderbird
PDFs show up attached, and email body is shown, but Thunderbird thinks the file type is TXT. JPGs and DOCs aren't showing up at all, neither does the text in the body of the email. Thunderbird is showing the size of the email properly.

Attachments sent with RC, opened in RC
All attachment filetypes are showing up properly, but RC isn't opening them up in the 'native' viewer like it does for attachments that are handled properly (i.e. sent from Thunderbird), it just prompts for download. The files are uncorrupted when downloaded.

I hope this helps clarify a little.

[till]

Continue here: #1484973