Mail - recipient cannot see attachments - help please
Jim Backus
When receiving email with atachments from Mac Mail to PMMail, my OS/2
email client, the attachments are not accessible. The attachments are
included in the message (view full message), but the PMmail client
cannot see them as valid attachments. I've never had this problem
before even with email sent from Windows Outlook. I guess there is
something in the Mail preferences on the Mac that will fix this but
I've not found it. I've tried setting 'Windows friendly attachments'
on and off with the same result.
It looks as though the structure of the line that separates the
message body from the description of the attachment may be
non-standard in the Mac.
Anyone else had this problem? is there a work around if mac mail
cannot be persuaded to operate compatibly?
TIA for any suggestions.
Jim
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Jim Moe
>
> When receiving email with atachments from Mac Mail to PMMail, my OS/2
> email client, the attachments are not accessible. The attachments are
> included in the message (view full message), but the PMmail client
> cannot see them as valid attachments. I've never had this problem
>
If you would send me a (ZIPped) sample message, I could tell you what is
happening.
Which version of PMMail?
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Erick Andrews
> Hi,
>
> When receiving email with atachments from Mac Mail to PMMail, my OS/2
> email client, the attachments are not accessible. The attachments are
> included in the message (view full message), but the PMmail client
> cannot see them as valid attachments. I've never had this problem
> before even with email sent from Windows Outlook. I guess there is
> something in the Mail preferences on the Mac that will fix this but
> I've not found it. I've tried setting 'Windows friendly attachments'
> on and off with the same result.
>
> It looks as though the structure of the line that separates the
> message body from the description of the attachment may be
> non-standard in the Mac.
>
> Anyone else had this problem? is there a work around if mac mail
> cannot be persuaded to operate compatibly?
>
> TIA for any suggestions.
>
> Jim
Every once in a great while I have received an email from a Mac user
where the attachment was encoded with a different standard, and they're
usually graphics files.
I have successfully been able to copy and paste the "MIME" from the raw
email into a separate file and run one of Chris Graham's utilities on it. I can't
remember exactly which one, but it surely was either "uudecode.exe" or
"xxdecode.exe". Then, I was able to name it as a jpg or a bmp or a gif, and
open it with PMView.
I'm not that familiar with the Mac email client, but there must be a setting to
generate MIMEs that the greater PC world can render.
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Best,
Erick Andrews
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Bob Eager
<eand...@bogusstar.net> wrote:
(MIME etc.)
Sometimes it's just a MIME header problem, and the encoding *is* base64.
Her's a slow, but working, REXX script...crude but effective. Edit out
the base64 block, and run this:
----------------------------------------------
/* Decodes a Base64 file. */
/* */
/* Written by James L. Dean */
char_set='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789
+/'
DO n=0 to 127
t.n=-1
END
DO n=0 to 63
i=C2D(SUBSTR(char_set,n+1,1))
t.i=n
END
CALL CHAROUT,'Input? '
input_file_name=LINEIN()
CALL CHAROUT,'Output? '
output_file_name=LINEIN()
SAY 'Writing "'output_file_name'".'
CALL RxFuncAdd 'SysFileDelete','RexxUtil','SysFileDelete'
i=SysFileDelete(output_file_name)
input_line=''
input_line_index=81
input_eof=0
DO WHILE (input_eof = 0)
sextet_num=1
num_bits=0
DO WHILE(sextet_num <= 4)
DO WHILE((input_eof = 0) & (input_line_index > LENGTH(input_line)))
IF LINES(input_file_name) = 0 THEN
input_eof=-1
ELSE
DO
input_line=LINEIN(input_file_name)
input_line_index=1
END
END
IF input_eof = 0 THEN
DO
i=C2D(SUBSTR(input_line,input_line_index,1))
input_line_index=input_line_index+1
t1=t.i
IF t1 >= 0 THEN
DO
sextet.sextet_num=t1
num_bits=num_bits+6
sextet_num=sextet_num+1
END
END
ELSE
DO
sextet.sextet_num=0
sextet_num=sextet_num+1
END
END
IF num_bits >= 8 THEN
DO
t1=sextet.1
t2=sextet.2
CALL CHAROUT output_file_name,D2C(4*t1+t2%16)
num_bits=num_bits-8
END
IF num_bits >= 8 THEN
DO
t1=sextet.3
CALL CHAROUT output_file_name,D2C(16*(t2//16)+(t1%4))
num_bits=num_bits-8
END
IF num_bits >= 8 THEN
DO
t2=sextet.4
CALL CHAROUT output_file_name,D2C(64*(t1//4)+t2)
END
END
--------------------------------------------
Chris Ridd
> Hi,
>
> When receiving email with atachments from Mac Mail to PMMail, my OS/2
> email client, the attachments are not accessible. The attachments are
> included in the message (view full message), but the PMmail client
> cannot see them as valid attachments. I've never had this problem
> before even with email sent from Windows Outlook. I guess there is
> something in the Mail preferences on the Mac that will fix this but
> I've not found it. I've tried setting 'Windows friendly attachments'
> on and off with the same result.
Does the position of the "attachments" in the mail message make a
difference? Some clients may only handle them if they're after all the
text parts, however Mail.app is able to insert them inline which makes
it look like there are multiple text parts.
Mail.app has "Edit > Attachments > Always insert at end" to change this
behaviour. (At least Leopard's Mail.app does. I can't speak for
Tiger's.)
Cheers,
Chris
Erick Andrews
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:06:33 UTC, "Erick Andrews"
> <eand...@bogusstar.net> wrote:
>
> (MIME etc.)
>
> Sometimes it's just a MIME header problem, and the encoding *is* base64.
> Her's a slow, but working, REXX script...crude but effective. Edit out
> the base64 block, and run this:
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> /* Decodes a Base64 file. */
> /* */
> /* Written by James L. Dean */
> char_set='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789
[. . .]
Thanks, Bob. I'll try it the next time I get one o' them "Mac-attacks". <g>