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We have a web.mail system at our university based on Outlook, it has worked fine until upgraded to 8.01 the attachments always comes in ashx format (instead of word , pp pdf or whatever and are hard to open. If I use Safari instead everything is ok

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sfriman
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We have web.mail system at our university based on Outlook, it has worked fine until upgraded to 8.01 the attachments always comes in ashx format (instead of word , pp pdf or whatever and are hard to open. If I use Safari instead everything is ok edit

We have web.mail system at our university based on Outlook, it has worked fine until upgraded to 8.01 the attachments always comes in ashx format (instead of word , pp pdf or whatever and are hard to open. If I use Safari instead everything is ok edit

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knorretje
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Outlook Web Access sends an illegal Content-Dispositon header to Firefox. This is no longer allowed in Firefox 8. Firefox 9 will have a workaround for this so that Microsoft has time to fix their software.
See http://support.mozilla.com/nl/questions/895024
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/search?q=attachement.ashx
Bug 704989 - add workaround for broken Outlook Web App (OWA) attachment handling