Thursday, June 1, 2017

Yahoo Mail Attachments - A Raw Deal

When downloading email attachments, most people expect the filenames to be preserved. But with Yahoo Mail, you never know. For many months, I have experienced an intermittent problem where downloaded PDF attachments are renamed to "raw.pdf" as in the following example. The original filename is displayed in the tooltip:


After pressing the "Download" link, I get this file:


And its associated file properties:


Come on, Yahoo Mail! What gives?

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