LO73762: MESSAGE CONTAINING DUPLICATE ORIGINAL FILENAMES IS DISPLAYED AS A FILENAME WITHOUT THE PROPER EXTENSION

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• 1.  Send a message to a Notes user from gmail which includes 2
  or more
  atttachments with the same name (but different content in
  each)
  2.  Domino SMTP service will receive the MIME message and as
  part of creating
  the Notes mail document will create a $File object for every
  visible
  attachment.  It is creating entries with
  <filename>.<extension>.001 for ones
  with duplicate names.  This is problemeatic as the last segment
  is not the
  extension, and hence various things within the mail client may
  exhibit
  problems.  (For example, the Notes cllient can't figure which
  image to display
  for this attachment)
  
  Customer request:  Change the format of the filename generated
  for such
  duplicates to be <filename>.001.<extension>.  In other words
  flip the unique
  number segment and the extension portion of the file.
  
  Not having the right etension will have lots of problems
  including:
  Not being able to launch the proper document editor
  Not displaying the right icon representing the file type
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• A programming error was found and will be corrected in a future
   release.
  

Problem conclusion

• A programming error was found and will be corrected in a future
   release.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

• This APAR is associated with SPR# VSEN8UCNFG.
  when we receive an internet message which contains multiple
   files of the same name, we must create a unique 'internal'
   name when we store the message into the router's mail
   box.    unfortunately, we formed the unique name by appending
   a sequence number (e.g., 005) which had the effect of 'losing'
   the original file extension; the extension is used on some
   platforms to identify the file type and thus launch the
   correct application for the file.    this change fixes that
   problem so that the unique name is formed by taking the base
   name (i.e., the 'file' part of 'file.ext'), appending the
   sequence number and then appending the original extension.
   for example, file.0005.ext.    this insures that if the user
   is somehow presented with unique internal name rather than the
   original name, the user will still be able to launch the
   approrpriate application for the file.
  

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  DOMINO SERVER

• Fixed component ID

  5724E6200

Applicable component levels

• R852 PSN

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