[Mailman-Users] pdf-attachments in archives stored as attachment.obj

[Mark Sapiro]

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de ren0r wrote:
> 
> All the files are stored with the file-extension as they are send to
> the list, except *.pdf-files. They are stored as attachment.obj
> instead of attachment.pdf. it seems that pipermail / scrubber or
> another candidate doenst get it's mime-type in the archiving-process.
> 
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> 
> Any suggestions how to fix that? Maybe there is a relation from my
> /etc/mime.types to that problem?

There are a few possible of solutions.

1) you can set

SCRUBBER_USE_ATTACHMENT_FILENAME_EXTENSION = True

in mm_cfg.py to use the extension of the attachment filename instead of
guessing the extension from the content-type.

2) you can try to make sure that all the clients that send pdf
attachments give them a content-type of application/pdf.

3) if SCRUBBER_USE_ATTACHMENT_FILENAME_EXTENSION is False, scrubber
calls the Python library mimetypes.guess_all_extensions() function to
map the content-type to an extension. This module in turn supplements
its built in list by attempting to read several files (depending on
Python version) including /etc/mime.types so if the issue is due to some
content-type other than application/pdf, associating that content-type
with the pdf extension in /etc/mime.types may work.

- --
Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

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