Csv files open rather than download

Hello,
We've just set up a new Communigate Pro mail server. However, our Safari users are experiencing a bit of a quirk when it comes to accessing their attachments. When clicking on the download link for an attachment of content-type text/csv, the attachment opens as plain text in a new Safari window by default rather than it being downloaded. The user can option-click to force it to download, but I'd rather it download by default, as is the case with Firefox. Is there a preferences setting I can change to make this happen?
Thanks,
Bill

Hi Bill,
There's no setting you can set in Safari to make it download a particular file. I don't know anything about Communigate but can you modify it to specify a content-disposition header for the csv files? E.g.
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mydatafile.csv"
The 'Content-Disposition' header will tell the browser to download the file rather than view it inline.

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