received attachments are garbled
Gary Cahn
are sending us messages with attachments that are consistenly garbled,
i.e. lots of gibberish and codes.
The people who send the messages tell me that they are not using any
sort of special encoding on their attachments.
This may not be a problem with Eudora, but rather a problem with MS
Outlook.
Interestingly, when I attempt to look at the attachment in a
wordprocessor, one of the few pieces of text that is not garbled is at
the start of the file and it says "microsoft mail note."
Has anyone else experienced this? Any solutions.
Gary Cahn
Daniel Jacobson
Try having your senders use MIME encoding for the attachment.
Eudora Lite will decode: BinHex and MIME but NOT UUencode.
Eudora Pro will decode: BinHex, MIME and UUencode.
A good freeware program which will encode/decode practically
anything is Wincode version 2.7.3.
Try:
http://www.jumbo.com/pages/utilities/windows/encode/
Also for the Eudora users:
Tools | Options | Attachments | UNCHECK Put text attachments in body of msg
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Over and Out
Daniel Jacobson
James Peters
"computer codes" now that I am using Netscape Mail. I loved Eudora but
always experienced problems with attachments. Now I do not even care about
the encoding or file type. I just click on the file and the appropriate
software opens to read it. I will be reading to see what the Eudora gurus
have to say about attached files.
Gary Cahn wrote:
> We are using Eudora 3.03 . People who are using Microsoft outlook 98
> are sending us messages with attachments that are consistenly garbled,
> i.e. lots of gibberish and codes.
>
> The people who send the messages tell me that they are not using any
> sort of special encoding on their attachments.
>
> This may not be a problem with Eudora, but rather a problem with MS
> Outlook.
>
> Interestingly, when I attempt to look at the attachment in a
> wordprocessor, one of the few pieces of text that is not garbled is at
> the start of the file and it says "microsoft mail note."
>
> Has anyone else experienced this? Any solutions.
> Gary Cahn
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Cheri
>
> We are using Eudora 3.03 . People who are using Microsoft outlook 98
> are sending us messages with attachments that are consistenly garbled,
> i.e. lots of gibberish and codes.
>
> The people who send the messages tell me that they are not using any
> sort of special encoding on their attachments.
>
> This may not be a problem with Eudora, but rather a problem with MS
> Outlook.
>
> Interestingly, when I attempt to look at the attachment in a
> wordprocessor, one of the few pieces of text that is not garbled is at
> the start of the file and it says "microsoft mail note."
>
> Has anyone else experienced this? Any solutions.
> Gary Cahn
My customer is having the same problem with garbled messages and
gibberish. They have Eudora 4 Pro and can't seem to retrieve any
messages with attachments correctly from someone who uses Exchange
Server 5.5. They get messages which state
>Subject: Test Message
>Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 12:44:42 -0700
>X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3)
>X-Loop:
>X-MDaemon-Deliver-To:
>
>This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
>
>this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.
>
>
>
>------ =_NextPart_000_01BD9A28.61DDEC20
>
>Content-Type: text/plain;
>
> charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>
We have worked around the problem by having their customer send
attachments to them in UUEncode, but would really like to know why
Eudora isn't able to encode a MIME message when it's suppose to. Can
anyone shed some light on this or offer any suggestions?
Cheri McDonald
John Tubbs
<http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/1332hq.html>
"Mangled Attachments"
<http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/1316hq.html>
John
Daniel Jacobson
>> We are using Eudora 3.03 . People who are using Microsoft outlook 98
>> are sending us messages with attachments that are consistenly garbled,
>> i.e. lots of gibberish and codes.
>>
>> The people who send the messages tell me that they are not using any
>> sort of special encoding on their attachments.
>>
>> This may not be a problem with Eudora, but rather a problem with MS
>> Outlook.
>>
>> Interestingly, when I attempt to look at the attachment in a
>> wordprocessor, one of the few pieces of text that is not garbled is at
>> the start of the file and it says "microsoft mail note."
>>
>> Has anyone else experienced this? Any solutions.
>My customer is having the same problem with garbled messages and
>gibberish. They have Eudora 4 Pro and can't seem to retrieve any
>messages with attachments correctly from someone who uses Exchange
>Server 5.5. They get messages which state
>
>>Subject: Test Message
>>Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 12:44:42 -0700
>>X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3)
>>X-Loop:
>>X-MDaemon-Deliver-To:
>>
>>This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
>>this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.
>>------ =_NextPart_000_01BD9A28.61DDEC20
>>Content-Type: text/plain;
>> charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>We have worked around the problem by having their customer send
>attachments to them in UUEncode, but would really like to know why
>Eudora isn't able to encode a MIME message when it's suppose to. Can
>anyone shed some light on this or offer any suggestions?
All versions of Eudora Light and Pro decode MIME, are you sure your
senders know where to check how they are sending the message?
What E-Mail package are they using?
In Eudora it's:
Tools | Options | Attachments | Encoding method
Cheri
Eudora is set to encode for MIME, thats why this is so annoying. My
thought was that the problem was happening on the senders side. They are
sending the email in a MIME format that Eudora doesn't understand. The
customer is able to recieve attachments from this one person when it's
sent encoded for MIME only via a MSN account.
Any further thoughts?
Cheri
Daniel Jacobson
>>>> We are using Eudora 3.03 . People who are using Microsoft outlook 98
>>>> are sending us messages with attachments that are consistenly garbled,
>>>> i.e. lots of gibberish and codes.
>>>>
>>>> The people who send the messages tell me that they are not using any
>>>> sort of special encoding on their attachments.
>>>>
>>>> This may not be a problem with Eudora, but rather a problem with MS
>>>> Outlook.
>>>>
>>>> Interestingly, when I attempt to look at the attachment in a
>>>> wordprocessor, one of the few pieces of text that is not garbled is at
>>>> the start of the file and it says "microsoft mail note."
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else experienced this? Any solutions.
>>>My customer is having the same problem with garbled messages and
>>>gibberish. They have Eudora 4 Pro and can't seem to retrieve any
>>>messages with attachments correctly from someone who uses Exchange
>>>Server 5.5.
>>>We have worked around the problem by having their customer send
>>>attachments to them in UUEncode, but would really like to know why
>>>Eudora isn't able to encode a MIME message when it's suppose to. Can
>>>anyone shed some light on this or offer any suggestions?
>> All versions of Eudora Light and Pro decode MIME, are you sure your
>> senders know where to check how they are sending the message?
>> What E-Mail package are they using?
>> In Eudora it's:
>> Tools | Options | Attachments | Encoding method
>Eudora is set to encode for MIME, thats why this is so annoying. My
>thought was that the problem was happening on the senders side. They are
>sending the email in a MIME format that Eudora doesn't understand. The
>customer is able to recieve attachments from this one person when it's
>sent encoded for MIME only via a MSN account.
>
>Any further thoughts?
Try:
Look in the [Mappings] section of the EUDORA.INI file, it tells Eudora
how to send/receive a file attachment.
What is the file extension?
Is there an entry for it in the [Mappings] section of the Eudora.ini file?
both=doc,MSWD,,application,msword
You will have to experiment, I haven't played with this much and I still
don't understand the 5 parameters very well even after reading the manual.