TNEF Question

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Sep 12 23:14:53 IST 2007


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Many thanks for that. It will be in the next release.

Derek Buttineau wrote:
> On 2007-Aug-14, at 5:00 PM, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> That code has changed quite a bit since then. I found a bug in the
>> external TNEF decoder support code which I have fixed.
>
> Hi Julian,
>
> I finally had a chance to review the TNEF changes in Version 4.62.9 
> and found that my test winmail.dat (which had worked fine with 4.61.7) 
> was coming back as unparsable.  After  a bit of head scratching, I 
> think I found the problem.   The default umask of 0022 on the system 
> was causing the tnef.$$ subdirectory to be created with a mode of 0640 
> instead of 0777 and a result when the external decoder was called it 
> was unable to extract the files to the newly created directory.
>
> To work around this, I simply added the chmod 0700 to bring it inline 
> with the InternalDecoder().  I've included the patch for 4.62.9 (as 
> minor as it is)
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Derek Buttineau
> Internet Systems Developer
> Compu-SOLVE Internet Services
> Compu-SOLVE Technologies, Inc
>
> Phone:  705-725-1212 x255
> E-Mail:  derek at csolve.net
>
>
>

Jules

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