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> From: Steven Knowles <[email protected]> > Date: 10 July 2012 7:59:02 PM AWST > To: WAMUG Mailing List <[email protected]>, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Attachment is there - but can't access - hotmail > Apple Mail > > Ronni, maybe you can pass this to the WAMUG mailing list in case my message > doesn't make it as an unpaid subscriber. It's a solution to previous problem > raised (copied below). > > I've subsequently found the hotmail attachment problem has raised its head > numerous times. Piecing together snippets from the experiences recorded, I > found a solution which solved my problem of not being able to see an attached > graphic file: > > Although attachments can't be opened, or seen via Quick Look, they can be > seen if, via the menu options, a user accesses File > Quick Look Attachments, > or Command+Y, and then arrow through to the attachment the user wants to view. > Whist the attachment of interest is in view, enter Full Screen Mode via the > diagonal double arrow in the top right corner of the Quick Look Attachments > window. > Take a screen shot of the attachment on display via Shift+Command+4 > space > bar > click. > Open image of the screen capture and crop to size. > > Cheers, Steven > > > On 04/05/2012, at 10:22 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Steven, >> >> I would suspect the problem lies with the sender's Hotmail. Hotmail has >> never handled attachments right. >> The problem is most likely a wrong Content type in the header. >> >> Use View > Message > Raw Source and check if you see - Content-type: >> multipart/Related >> That is the problem, the right value is "Multipart/mixed" >> >> An example from one of my emails: >> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:16:33 +0800 >> Subject: Delivery Confirmation >> Content-type: multipart/mixed; >> >> How you can change it; I don't have time just at present to see if an >> Applescript could be made that changes "multipart/related" into >> "multipart/mixed" from an email header. >> >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" >> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD >> >> OS X 10.7.3 Lion >> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >> >> >> On 03/05/2012, at 10:55 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure if this is a hotmail issue, or a Mail issue, but lately I've >>> had examples whereby somebody has sent me an email with attachment, but I >>> can't access the attachment. >>> >>> From memory, this problem has arisen only when receiving from a hotmail >>> address. >>> >>> Using Apple's Mail as email Client (Lion 10.7.3), I can see that the >>> content (as in the attached file) must be within the email somewhere >>> because in the Size column of my inbox screen, it says 691KB, and in the >>> paperclip column, 2 attachments (1 of which is an embedded graphic in a sig >>> file). However, when looking at the email itself, it indicates just 1 >>> attachment of 31KB, being the embedded graphic. No sign of the attachment I >>> want to access, and I've looked in the Mail Downloads folder itself. Yet >>> Mail must begetting this 691KB info from somewhere?? >>> >>> Anybody have a clue as to what's happening here? >>> >>> Cheers, Steven > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
