Hi Neil, I got the same email yesterday so its possibly how it was sent. I know they had to resend one a couple of weeks/months ago but that was because they forgot the attachment.
Kind regards, Greg Satti www.zytech.com.au PO Box 758, Bunbury WA 6230 Ph: (08) 9721 1125 Fx: (08) 9721 1126 Mob: 0423 558 636 The online data storage & technology store On 24/4/05 10:05 AM, "Neil Houghton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I receive a weekly Market Bulletin from Commsec - its a pdf sent as an > attachment to an HTML email. > > This week the email didn't show an attachment but seemed to show much of the > source code - starting at: >> Mime-Version: 1.0 > and including tall the html coding and raw PDF code in the body of the email > > Maybe it was Sunday morning making me question the mysteries of the universe > but I wondered why. > > I compared the source code of the message with the code for last weeks email > and noticed that there seemed to be an extra blank line between the > "Subject:" header and the "Mime-Version: 1.0" line. > > Intrigued I dragged the email to the desktop, removed the blank line with > BBEdit lite and dropped it back in the inbox - sure enough the email now > displayed as usual showing the pdf as an attachment which opened fine in > acrobat. > > So, having found the problem, I'm wondering where it came from - is this > down to Commsec sending an email with a problem, my client introducing the > problem on receipt, or something that comes from one of the mail servers on > the way - or is any of the above possible/probable? > > No biggie here - I'm just curious as to how this stuff works. > > TIA > > > Neil
