Jeff,
When I did a bit of testing using OE to send attachments, I found that if I
created the message and did the attachment, it worked just fine in Web MSG.
However, if I resent a message that someone else sent me, with an
attachment, that usually did not work in Web MSG, but OE said it was fine.
Turns out OE would, in effect, encode the already encoded attachment and Web
MSG just does not 'know' how to handle that.
Happy Holidays!
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Johnston CWT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Problems with attachments
> Tried all of that and unfortunately I am still getting a problem 50% of
the
> time. It seems that every traceable error came from someone sending from
> outlook to WebMessaging. Knowing this does not help tho because I cannot
> control what settings they have on the machine on the sending end when the
> problem shows up on the recieving end, if I can talk the sender into going
> thru the settings only about half of them believe it has anything to do
with
> there computer and thus automatically dismiss it as a problem with the
> reciever since they send attatchments to others successfully, even if I
> convince them it may be a problem with the mime settings this does not
> allways fix the problem.
>
> You will notice that I am leaving the recievers out of the equasion, this
is
> because all of my clients are using IE with the same version and settings,
> we control this with IEAK and no one I have come accross has changed it.
>
> Jeff Johnston
> Systems Support
> Comcare Health Services
> 519-963-3651
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 12:15 PM
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Problems with attachments
>
>
> > > I am getting a variety of problems with attatchements in web
> > > messaging. Some
> > > attatchements refuse to open, others show up as garbage. Anyone have
any
> > > idea what is causing this and what a solution is?
> >
> > Unfortunately, we IMail admins have no control over the weird stuff
IMail
> > does with some attachments. There are a MYRIAD of variables at play: the
> > sender's email client, the encoding method, the file type, the file name
> > (spaces?), the file extension or lack thereof, the receiver's browser
type
> > and version and platform, etc. The problem stems from IMail not sending
> the
> > correct MIME-type headers with the file when you try to open it.
> >
> > A couple of things that *may* help: 1) check your MIME types and handler
> > applications as set in your browser's preferences, and 2) check your
> WebMail
> > user preference on whether to show text attachments inline, or as links
> (try
> > each way).
> >
> > Finally, you should document all the pertinent details (sending email
> client
> > settings, file type, file extension, receiving browser version and
> platform,
> > etc.), and let Ipswitch know about it. I've been lobbying them for a
> > MIME-type extension mapping table, like IIS has, that has all the common
> > file types, and that gives us the ability to add more filetypes and
> > customize the headers sent.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Ron
> >
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