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kerm1t
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One of my users is experiencing problems recieving emails with attachments in them.
He asked a friend to send a mail with a PDF attached to his mail account on my box, and a duplicate message to the mail account provided by his ISP.
He fetched both messages over POP, but the message sent via my server claimed to have only one attachment - winmail.dat. He used WM Viewer to view it, and got this message:
"If you use Microsoft Outlook Express and receive a message from an Outlook
user which should have an attachment but appears to be missing then it may
be still there. Follow this procedure: In Outlook Express, select the mail
in the main list window, then click menu 'File','Properties', in the dialog,
click 'Details', in the next dialog click 'Message Source', right-click
'Select All', then open Notepad and save as a file WINMAIL.MIM . Then open
up WinZip - or another MIME decoder - choose menu 'open' and select the
WINMAIL.MIM file and extract the file 'winmail.dat' into a folder and then
open it by WMViewer."
I stay away from MS, so I didn't know what winmail.dat was until today. What's puzzling me is why there was a problem sending via my server, but not via his ISP
Any thoughts please?
He asked a friend to send a mail with a PDF attached to his mail account on my box, and a duplicate message to the mail account provided by his ISP.
He fetched both messages over POP, but the message sent via my server claimed to have only one attachment - winmail.dat. He used WM Viewer to view it, and got this message:
"If you use Microsoft Outlook Express and receive a message from an Outlook
user which should have an attachment but appears to be missing then it may
be still there. Follow this procedure: In Outlook Express, select the mail
in the main list window, then click menu 'File','Properties', in the dialog,
click 'Details', in the next dialog click 'Message Source', right-click
'Select All', then open Notepad and save as a file WINMAIL.MIM . Then open
up WinZip - or another MIME decoder - choose menu 'open' and select the
WINMAIL.MIM file and extract the file 'winmail.dat' into a folder and then
open it by WMViewer."
I stay away from MS, so I didn't know what winmail.dat was until today. What's puzzling me is why there was a problem sending via my server, but not via his ISP
Any thoughts please?