A Eudora Oddity

[Tom Hall]

There's one thing about Eudora that puzzles me, and I'm wondering if it's a
feature of the program or something that I could change in my
configuration.

If I want to send a file attach, and use Ctrl-H (or drag and drop from
Explorer) to select the file, Eudora uses the file in its original
location, but if I right-click on a file in Explorer and choose Send to
Mail Recipient, the file is copied to my Eudora attachment folder.

Sometimes it's more convenient to use the latter method, but I've stopped
using it because I then have a second copy of a file that I don't need.

Has anyone discovered a way around this?

Tom

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[Han]

Tom Hall <aria...@gmail.com.spoo> wrote in
news:1pt5f3ln8l0li384i...@4ax.com:

From an explorer window, drag the file onto the message in aq composition
window.
After Ctrl-H, navigate to the folder with the file, and "open" the file.

Either way will work.
Remeber that you probably will need to save the file when you're editing
it, before you send the message, otherwise you may send the file before
the editing is completed.
DAMHIKT (acronymfinder.com)
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Han
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[John H Meyers]

With my "Internet Options" set to Thunderbird as my default email program,
I find that the attachment has instead been copied to:

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp\moz_mapi
(and the file disappears immediately after sending the message)

This suggests that Windows uses MAPI to send the message.

In the MAPI section of my Eudora options,
I have checked "Delete MAPI attachments"
(x) After sending message

When I now set my default email program back to Eudora,
then use "Send to Mail Recipient," I now see the attachment
first copied to my Eudora attachment folder,
but then deleted after sending the message.

If I change the above option to
(x) When message emptied from Trash
then Eudora's behavior changes to exactly that.

For the sake of completeness in specifying my environment,
I also have "Use Eudora MAPI server" set to
(x) Never

And I'm doing all of this under WinXP/SP2.

Does it work for you?

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[Tom Hall]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:43:16 -0500, "John H Meyers"
<jhme...@nomail.invalid> wrote:

>Does it work for you?

Yes it does - and thank you.

I'm glad you posted this here, because I couldn't reply to your email as
originally sent (well, my second attempt so far hasn't bounced) :-)

[John H Meyers]

Want to try a little "black magic"?

If you have WinXP (or perhaps a closely related operating system),
right-click an empty spot on your desktop, and create a new
empty "text" file there, then rename that file to "sendmail.mapimail"

"Drag and drop" other files to that, and see what happens.

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[John H Meyers]

Some explanation for the magic:

How the "Mail Recipient" target works (at least in XP),
even on the desktop, or anywhere else:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182378/

How AOL can mess it up by substituting their own DLL:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821403/

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