[Mailman-Developers] SCRUBBER Question
Mark Sapiro
msapiro at value.net
Sat Sep 25 00:03:51 CEST 2004
Robby Griffin wrote:
>
>This is pretty lame. I run Mailman in an environment where most of the
>users use Lotus Notes on Macs, and in our case Mailman converted the
>vast majority of their attachments to .bin or .obj because Notes sent
>most things as application/octet-stream. PDF file? .bin. Excel file?
>..bin. Word doc? .bin. Argh. Users can NOT figure out how to open these
>files (or even what application they were supposed to have been
>openable in) after getting them from the archives. Most of them had
>Stuffit Expander launch automatically (on the .bin file, duhr) and were
>generally confused.
I agree, but why is Lotus Notes sending PDFs, etc. as
application/octet-stream instead of application/pdf, etc?
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