Bug in file attachments - August 1, 2008 -

admin | development

I was hoping to not have to post this, but I just haven’t had time to find a proper fix yet. File attachments with “[” and “]” in the name cause Mailmanagr to have some trouble.

Before all else, I’m really sorry that this is even an issue. It’s 100% a bug in my programming and it will be fixed. Sorry that hasn’t been done yet — I’ve been on vacation with my family, and Internet access was spotty. I will be resolving it in the next couple of days.

The following is geeky. You’ve been warned.

Mailmanagr reads all of the attachments on a message into an array. Each position in the array is referenced using [0] through [x] for the positions. If a file contains [2] in the name, Mailmanagr gets confused, strips off that part of the file name, and then becomes confused that no file exists. So, for example, if I send a message with an attachment called file[1].txt, Mailmanagr thinks that the file is actually called file.txt, and when it can’t find a file by that name, it chokes.