RE: Missing Attachments

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From: Bob Cooley (bobcool_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:04:32 GMT

Hi Ryan,

The key clue here to your problem is that sometimes these are coming over
as .DAT files. This happens all the time when the sender sends the email
in Microsoft's proprietary Rich Text Format. This format is most commonly
used when you're using Word as your e-mail editor. Some ISP's mail servers
sometimes strip the RTF data and then tries to re-package the packets,
resulting in a .dat file being passed on to the receipient.

Try sending the e-mails in plain-text or HTML format and see if things
improve - I think they will....

Bob Cooley, MCSE
Supportability Program Manager
for Outlook & BCM
--------------------
| Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
| From: "Ryan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
| Sender: "Ryan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
| References: <e05301c3efe4$6411b590$a501280a@phx.gbl>
| Subject: RE: Missing Attachments
| Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:10:19 -0800
| Lines: 2
| Message-ID: <de4d01c3eff0$60e6bdf0$a401280a@phx.gbl>
| MIME-Version: 1.0
| Content-Type: text/plain;
| charset="iso-8859-1"
| Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
| X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
| Thread-Index: AcPv8GDmumFYfLu+RmG7MliIxjDw8g==
| X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300
| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.outlook.general
| Path: cpmsftngxa07.phx.gbl
| Xref: cpmsftngxa07.phx.gbl microsoft.public.outlook.general:210386
| NNTP-Posting-Host: tk2msftngxa12.phx.gbl 10.40.1.164
| X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.outlook.general
|
| Also, this happens ALL THE TIME when I sent .jpg
| attachments to my friend who use AOL dial-up.
|

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