Webmail and inline attachment viewing

Question

Hi there,
We're running a slightly older version of iMS, 5.2p1, and we have a quesetion about the webmail interface.
We've put in an anti-spam beastie called the Barracuda. This box sends each user a spam summary and sends the report as a HTML. The webmail does not allow us to view the attachment inline and the user is forced to click on the text/html link, which many people are very wary about (but still happily run Outlook...go figure...)
The message is encoded in base64 and so webmail thinks it's plain text. It works in Thunderbird and Outlook clients happily.
Anyway, I know the answer is 'upgrade' but is there a fix in 5.2p2 or 6.x? Is there a workaround until we move to a new box which will 6.x sometime in the new year...?

Answer 1

I think the Barra just sends something for Outlook to understand and doesn't give a rat's about anything else, particularly webmail.
www.barracudanetworks.com is the device which, thanks to a colleague who is rather more clever than I am, talks to LDAP and lets you do single sign-on using your existing LDAP server.
The report is actually just a summary of what your account on the box has done and I think webmail probably thinks there's something naughty about it and won't render it. Just curious to see if we can fix it quickly or whether we need to upgrade to fix it.
thanks again,
z.