Eudora 5.2 and attachments

Jim Howell jwh2 at cornell.edu
Tue Feb 11 13:18:28 EST 2003


Hi,
         Ok, thanks for the information.
Jim

At 09:39 AM 2/11/2003 -0800, David Chait wrote:
>Jim,
>     Interesting, but yes, Stanford did try to patch Cyrus imapd to
>compensate and it seemed to work with some older versions of the source, but
>stopped when I upgraded past 2.1.4, our best results have come from
>upgrading users to 5.2 or another client altogether.
>
>-David
>
>_____________________________________________________________
>
>David Chait
>Sys Admin  - Facilities Operations
>333 Bonair Siding Road #107
>Stanford CA, 94305
>davidc at bonair.stanford.edu
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Howell" <jwh2 at cornell.edu>
>To: "David Chait" <davidc at bonair.stanford.edu>;
><info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:32 AM
>Subject: Re: Eudora 5.2 and attachments
>
>
> > Hi,
> >          That is exactly what's going on, Eudora 5.1 sender, Eudora 5.2
> > receiver using IMAP.  So it doesn't sound like there is anything I can do
> > on the server side.  Qualcomm doesn't seem to be real eager to fix this
> > one.  The last rumor I heard is that they changed their mind about getting
> > out of the email client business, but this behavior makes me wonder.
> > Jim
> >
> > At 08:24 AM 2/11/2003 -0800, David Chait wrote:
> > >Yes, Eudora has a problem with boundaries generation if a message is
>created
> > >in a certain fashion (text, HTML, and attachment in one doc), this was
> > >supposed to have been corrected with 5.2, however if the sender is on an
> > >older version you are still SOL. Qualcomm is trying desperatly it seems
>to
> > >get out of the Email client market from what I understand.
> > >
> > >-David
> > >
> > >_____________________________________________________________
> > >
> > >David Chait
> > >Sys Admin  - Facilities Operations
> > >333 Bonair Siding Road #107
> > >Stanford CA, 94305
> > >davidc at bonair.stanford.edu
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Jim Howell" <jwh2 at cornell.edu>
> > >To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> > >Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 7:39 AM
> > >Subject: Eudora 5.2 and attachments
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > We are having some difficultly with Eudora 5.2 and attachments.  What
> > > > happens is that the user gets a mailfile that's supposed to have an
> > > > attachment but Eudora doesn't show an attachment.  This doesn't happen
>all
> > > > the time, just some of the time.  This is with Cyrus 2.1.11 on a
>Solaris 8
> > > > system.  The interesting thing is that this only happens if the user
>reads
> > > > their mail via MAP, if they are using POP they see the attachment.
>This
> > >is
> > > > repeatable....  Qualcomm says it is a problem with Eudora 5.1 and
>earilier
> > > > clients in the way that they compose the headers.  Is there anything I
>can
> > > > do on the server side to help this?  Has anyone else seen this?
>Thanks.
> > > > Jim
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> >





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