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Posted: 29 June 2010 at 1:42pm | IP Logged Quote Oldtimer

I must be very stupid, but I don't see a way to access attachments on received mails. I get the little paper clip icon in the list, but there is no obvious way to get to the actual attachment.

Is there an "AfterLogic WebMail for dummies" somewhere on the web site? Or a regular User Manual?

/Mikael

P.S. I have installed AfterLogic WebMail Lite (.NET)
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Posted: 29 June 2010 at 2:21pm | IP Logged Quote Alex

If you have preview pane enabled, attachments and message body will be there. If you double-click the message in the list, it opens full-screen-view and the attachments list will also be there.

Sometimes, however, the message header states it contains attachments but no actual attachments are present. When building the message list, WebMail receives only message headers and does not yet know if each message actually has attachments or not. Maybe, it's your case?

To check this, you can save the message when in full-screen-view, click Save and then open the resulting .eml message in, let's say, Notepad. Do you see actual attachment data there?

It can be somewhat like

From: ...
To: ...
other headers ...
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
        boundary="_002_9E43D900CA864842916CD29817D650723E26E26EDKHER EXC01hamme_"

--_002_9E43D900CA864842916CD29817D650723E26E26EDKHEREXC01ham me_
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

some text body

and then goes attachment

--_002_9E43D900CA864842916CD29817D650723E26E26EDKHEREXC01ham me_
Content-Type: application/pdf; name="INV_3305.pdf"
Content-Description: "INV_3305.pdf"
Content-Disposition: attachment;
        filename="INV_3305.pdf";
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

JVBERi0xLjQgDQoxIDAgb2JqDQo8PA0KL1R5cGUgL0NhdGFsb2cNCi9QYWdl cyAzIDAgUg0KPj4N
CmVuZG9iag0KMiAwIG9iag0KPDwNCi9DcmVhdGlvbkRhdGUgKEQ6MjAxMDA1 MjAxNjEyNDQpDQov
UHJvZHVjZXIgKE1ldGEgUmVwb3J0cyBmb3IgRGVscGhpKQ0KL1RpdGxlIChU TWV0YVByaW50ZXIg
ZG9jdW1lbnQpDQovTW9kRGF0ZSAoRDoyMDEwMDUyMDE2MTI0NCkNCj4+DQpl bmRvYmoNCjMgMCBv
YmoNCjw8DQovVHlwZSAvUGFnZXMNCi9LaWRzIFsgNCAwIFIgXQ0KL0NvdW50 IDENCj4+DQplbmRv
YmoNCjQgMCBvYmoNCjw8DQovVHlwZSAvUGFnZQ0KL1BhcmVudCAzIDAgUg0K L01lZGlhQm94IFsg
MCAwIDU5NSA4NDIgXQ0KL1Jlc291cmNlcyA8PA0KL0ZvbnQgPDwNCi9GMCA2 IDAgUg0KL0YxIDcg

If you do not see anything like that, the message does not really have attachment.

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Posted: 30 June 2010 at 5:14am | IP Logged Quote Oldtimer

Yes, when I save a mail with an attachment as an .eml file and open it in notepad I see the two parts - the mail body and the attachment. The attachment starts with:
------=_NextPart_000_BB37_19EC617D.C830F141
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="=?iso-8859-1?Q?Infobrev_nr_4_2010=2Epdf?="
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Description: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Infobrev_nr_4_2010=2Epdf?=
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?iso-8859-1?Q?Infobrev_nr_4_2010=2Epdf?="
Content-ID: <99084162D8F54103B3D1018D5083E9A6>

...and then there's a long list of Base64 data.

I can also access the attachment by using regular Outlook, but I would really like my web client to work as well.

/Mikael

P.S. I noted that the main content type was given as:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_49C8_E3C339D8.BF282BC1"

rather than multipart/mixed.
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Posted: 08 July 2010 at 12:52pm | IP Logged Quote Oldtimer

*bump* ??
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Posted: 08 July 2010 at 1:07pm | IP Logged Quote nickux

You should know that if the message is created via Outlook or Outlook Express, some of its versions violate MIME, therefore other clients cannot view them (without patching especially for Microsoft's misbehavings).

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if that is the case here.
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Posted: 09 July 2010 at 3:07am | IP Logged Quote Igor

It would be perfect if you provide us with that message for examination. Please save it as EML file from WebMail Pro (you'll need to open message in Full View with a double click first), and we'll need the same message saved as EML by any other email client (Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird). Please submit the message via AfterLogic HelpDesk. Be sure to include this forum page URL for reference purposes.

Please note that it's a community resource, and if you need help from AfterLogic you are encouraged to use the HelpDesk instead.

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Posted: 10 January 2014 at 1:07pm | IP Logged Quote bwyatt

Alex wrote:
If you have preview pane enabled, attachments and message body will be there. If you double-click the message in the list, it opens full-screen-view and the attachments list will also be there. Alex


Hope it's ok to bring up an old thread here. I'm wondering where the setting is to have the preview pane enabled. Some of the attachments I get have a "view" option and some don't. Even files with the same extension, like pdf's. Some of them are viewable and others are not. Why would this be, and just what attachments should be viewable?



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Posted: 13 January 2014 at 2:53am | IP Logged Quote Igor

Quote:
I'm wondering where the setting is to have the preview pane enabled.


In current version, preview pane is always there, you can't disable or enable it.

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Some of the attachments I get have a "view" option and some don't. Even files with the same extension, like pdf's. Some of them are viewable and others are not.


WebMail Pro doesn't rely on extensions, MIME type of attachment is analyzed instead.

Quote:
Why would this be, and just what attachments should be viewable?


For the attachment to be viewable, it must be of one of the following MIME types:

Code:
'image/jpeg', 'image/png', 'image/gif',
'text/html', 'text/plain', 'text/css',
'text/rfc822-headers', 'message/delivery-status',
'application/x-httpd-php', 'application/javascript',
'application/pdf'


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