Attachment conversion problems

[jethro.carr]

hi all,

I recently did an upgrade from Scalix 10.0.1 to 10.05 and then to 11.0.4.

One email account regularly gets email with a text file attachment. The text file is in unix format when it is sent, and on Scalix 10.0.1, when I saved the attachment it was in unix format.

However, Scalix 11.0.4 seems to be converting the text file to dos format. This causes serious problems for us, as the text file must remain in unix format. (FYI: The difference between a unix and dos textfile, is the end of line character)

Can anyone confirm if this is a Scalix feature? And better yet, can anyone please tell me how to fix it?

The email account is accessed using outlook 2003. I attempted to access it with the webmail client, but it timed out trying to display the inbox - perhaps a problem due to the attachment? Or is it because I was trying to login via webmail whilst also logged into outlook?

cheers,

[gren]

On unix, there are 2 binaries called unix2dos and dos2unix which will change the line endings of files. I believe some text editors on the PC can choose which line ending policy to save as, so you could load the files into the application and save them with a different line ending policy.

Other than sending the files as application/octet-stream (i.e. binary) I'm not aware of a method to preserve the line endings.

Regards,
Gren.

[jethro.carr]

Thanks Gren,

yep, I can use the unix2dos and dos2unix programs, but this adds a lot of hassle to the text files.

I've filed a bug for this problem:
http://bugzilla.scalix.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15629

cheers,