Hello Alex, Wednesday, June 4, 2003 you wrote: AY> Its also a zip file which I have tested gets through AY> to me fine. Is there any weird setting on OE that might strip the AY> attachment at the mail server but still leave the message there?
Microsoft is notorious for not following mime rules. So frequently the segment boundaries are incorrect in messages sent with MS clients. When this happens the mime segment is still there of course but can't be properly parsed by the receiving client (which also can be MS). Best way to tell is look at the total message size and you frequently will see a message size far different than the message you can actually read. Now, extracting the mime segment (that is the attachment) in one of these e-mails is often very difficult. You can try various clients. If you have web mail you can try that. I've tried to fix them with a binary editor but it is very difficult and usually fails. But that's what it sounds like to me. There is almost no way I can think of that the mail server itself could demime the message, remove the attachment segment, and then rebuild the message on the server. It would at least take a script and if it were accidental it would certainly be interesting. So I'm more inclined to believe there is a faulty end of segment boundary inserted by the sending client and the receiving client is stopping parsing. I recall the first time I saw this though and it was quite a mystery for awhile. We have more problems I think with MS Entourage as the sender but I've seen it with Outlook too. HTH Terry Fritts - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
