Larry le Mac wrote:
Whenever I send files with Mail (OS X.3.4) the receiver gets two copies, one which is the real file and one much smaller and unopenable. This isn't a problem as such as the other one is only about 10% in size, but annoying as everyone keeps telling me that one file is corrupt or whatever and can I send it again.
I cannot find any attachment encoding setting (I recall something like this in Micro$oft Outlook Express in OS 9).
Any tips ?
May or may not be relevant, before I got this Mac I used OS 9 with Outlook and I think I had a similar problem there but not sure...
Larry
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Hi Larry
This topic has been discussed here before and I think it came down to something to do with resource forks, as I understand it the attachment is broken down into various bits and sometimes they don't get put together again properly, hence "file cannot be opened" "file is truncated" especially, i've found, with jpegs. This seemed, to me at least, to be pretty much a mac xmailer (the Mail app) problem, I use thunderbird for my email now and it is far superior at handling attachments IMHO.
I think it was Bruce who gave the best explanation of why it happens, if yoou search the G-List archive you may be able to find the relevant threads.
Hope this helps.
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