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Subject: Re: attached files and outlook
From: Ari Gordon-Schlosberg (regsnebcorp.com)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 06:30:13 CST

[Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de>]
> > I run Postfix (19990906-pl08) on a Linux system (Mandrake 6), and the
> > clients use Outlook (97 or 2000) or Outlook Express with POP/SMTP.
> > It seems that there are problems with attached files.
> > In some cases, the recipient of a message that contains an attached file
> > (say a .doc) cannot see the attached file at all. The received message has a
> > consistent size (that is more than the same message without the attached
> > file), but the mail software doesn't see that there is an attached file.
> > What puzzles me the most is that I cannot sort out a pattern : between two
> > clients it works fine, but between two others it doesn't, even if all of
> > them use Outlook 97.
>
> > In one case, a client send with Outlook 97 a message with a file attached.
> > When the recipient uses Outlook Express, the file is not visible. But when
> > he uses Outlook 97, the file is visible.
>
> With the same message? Then I'd say OE is broken.

I doubt it's OE. OE has always been very solid. I'd lay my money on
Outlook doing one of two things: being just plain broken and doing
something proprietary with its attachements. Come to think, I guess that's
just one thing. :) Anyway, good rule of thumb: trust OE, it's a good
little client. Burn all copies of Outlook; it is nothing but pain in an
open, non-Exchange environment. 

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Ari							there is no spoon
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