4 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-sqwebmailRe: [sqwebmail] Downloading a message...
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Pawel TeczaMay 15, 2006 2:29 am 
Sam VarshavchikMay 15, 2006 2:37 pm 
Pawel TeczaMay 17, 2006 4:09 am 
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Subject:Re: [sqwebmail] Downloading a message as message.txt fileActions...
From:Brian Candler (B.Ca@pobox.com)
Date:May 18, 2006 2:15:30 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-sqwebmail

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:10:03PM +0200, Pawel Tecza wrote:

Under MS Windows systems default mail client opens .msg files. Unfortunately, Outlook Express is the most popular mail client there, so if a user tries to download and open a message.msg file, then it fails, because it's a raw message, not a message in Outlook Express format. Maybe the better idea is downloading a message as message.txt file?

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"message.txt" would certainly not be appropriate for random binary files. ".txt" implies something that's not necessary true.

Downloaded message is a pure text file (if 7-bit encoded) or not (if 8-bit encoded), right? But a message encoded in UTF is a text file too ;)

I think the issue is that .txt implies Content-Type: text/plain, whereas .dat implies Content-Type: application/octet-stream (if anything)

This is only a problem only because Windows still infers file types from filename extensions rather than the MIME type. It's just the latest version of MS-DOS after all.