attachment gibberish

[rajama]

Hi,
Occasionally a pdf file shows up, not as a separate attachment, but as
gibberish at the bottom of the message.
Does anyone know what could be causing this?

tx.
Jay

[@discussions.microsoft.com FL48]

[FL48]

"rajama" wrote:

> I have the identical problem and it appears to only be with 2 or 3 people sending me attachments. Instead of their being a PDF file there is gibberish. I am running Outlook 2003 on Vista. Thanks. CW

[Brian Tillman]

FL48 <FL...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I have the identical problem and it appears to only be with 2 or 3
> people sending me attachments. Instead of their being a PDF file
> there is gibberish. I am running Outlook 2003 on Vista.

Is this message being received by you via Bcc? If so, that seems to be a
problem with OL 2003 on Vista and I've asked Microsoft to investigate.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

[FL48]

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

> Ah, ha, I bet you are on the right track. I suspect the incoming messages are via Bcc but I'll check. I will I find out if there is a fix? Thanks in advance.
Charlie

[Joe]

I have the same problem, been working on it for days. No one can find a
cure. I finally tried the Windows Mail program in Vista and it does not
decode the pdf's into gibberish. Obviously a conflict between Vista and
Outlook 2003. I have changed antivirus and all other aspects but nothing
worked.

My pdf's that were decoded into gibberish were part of a group email with
undisclosed recipients. They are the only ones I recieve though so I have
not had any un-decoded pdfs survive Outlook 2003.

Joe

[Luther]

I have been having a similar problem with attachments received from people
who are sending the message to multiple recipients as blind copies. Word,
Excel and .pdf files all show up as gibberish in the body of the message with
no attachment shown. If I have the person send exactly the same message to
me only, the attachments come through. Today I left messages on the mail
server and when one of these came in, I checked the message that had been
sent to multiple recipients via webmail and the attachemnts were there and
viewable. I forwarded this message from webmail to myself and when this copy
arrived in my Outlook box it would open. I have been using Outlook 2003 for
3 or 4 years and this problem only began when I upgraded in August to a Vista
machine. Does Microsoft monitor these threads or how do we bring this to
their attention?

[Brian Tillman]

Luther <Lut...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Does Microsoft monitor these threads or how do we bring this to their
> attention?

Microsoft does not typically monitor these newsgroups. As I said back on
November 8, I've reported this to Microsoft already.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

[Bill]

Add me to the list of those anxious for a solution. I'm running Outlook 2003
on Vista and having gibberish problem with document and video file
attachments. The sender is listed as a "Safe Sender" to no advantage, but as
you say, the emails all come addressed to me as BCC:s.