[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 51121] : Documents produced by LO 3.5.x and 3.4.x fail to open correctly when sent through Outlook Web Access

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51121

--- Comment #16 from Arno Teigseth <arno at teigseth.no> 2012-07-30 20:23:08 UTC ---
> If this message looks like it comes from a Bugzilla n00b, it's because it does.
> Apologies for any inconvenience!
newbies are persons wanting to learn, so they are generally treated well
in linux communities. Welcome.

> "they cannot coexist" or words to that effect. I have not found any
> detailed/technical explanation for why the coexistence is impossible, though,
> at least not yet.
Mixing the two things would be like mixing hot and cold water - it can't
be both at the same time.

(until the libreoffice project has changed so much it isn't water anymore)

> Ubuntu 12.04 in my case), to make it easy to test this bug further? I will have
> access to OWA until 9th September, but likely not after that, so I would like
> to get cracking with test files ASAP, if more of them are needed.

I have permanent access to OWA, and in my testing the problem isn't
SENDING it with OWA. It's RECEIVING with OWA.

Tried:
a) Sending from OWA to Thunderbird -> opens OK
b) Sending from Thunderbird to Thunderbird -> opens OK

c) Sending from OWA to OWA -> opens as 0-byte document (calc tries to
import it)

d) Sending from Thunderbird to OWA -> reports wrong attachment size
(+3kB) and opens as 0-byte document (calc tries to import it)


Thus, I think this bug probably should be marked as "fails to open
correctly when RECEIVED through Outlook Web Access".

Unless someone actually got the problem from sending docs from OWA to a
non-OWA "mail client".

Also tried sending the file just renamed to different extensions (), but the
OWA webmail interface messes it up still. Probably trying to be smart with
"file magic numbers"

For information, fetching the _same mail_ from the _same server_ via WebDAV
(http://davmail.sf.net)  into Thunderbird works great. So I'm about 95% this is
an OWA bug. Now where do we file that... (Could probably work around of course,
just to be nice with M$)

I use the basic HTML version of OWA, but there are more "sophisticated"
versions with activeX and whatnot.

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