Re: Outlook (not OE) stripping attachments I send
From: RogerDodger (123_at_456.789)
Date: 03/10/04
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:56:48 GMT
In article <123-4AD356.13274008032004@syrcnyrdrs-02-ge0.nyroc.rr.com>,
RogerDodger <123@456.789> wrote:
> A business colleague uses full-blown Outlook (not Outlook Express) on
> his XP computer, newly purchased in late 2003 (I mention this in hopes
> someone might discern the version of Outlook).
>
> Whenever I send him a message containing attachments, he receives the
> message, but not the attachments. And there's no notice provided to him
> that the attachments have been stripped. I am using Eudora 5.2 for my
> primary email program, and I've checked the filters and there's nothing
> funny going on in terms of my stripping attachments as I send.
>
> This has happened with Word documents (.doc) and text (.txt) files, but
> I'm sure it happens with every other type of file. And it happens EVERY
> time I send to him.
>
> Every other email my colleague receives from any other person has the
> attachments intact. But if I send a message with attachments to him,
> they're gone.
>
> Every other person I know of to whom I've sent messages with attachments
> has received the attachments. But again, he can't get them from me.
>
> I have even taken a message and attachments that failed to get to him,
> sent the same message and same attachments to another person (who
> received the attachments fine), and then that person successfully
> forwarded the message and attachments to the guy.
>
> This of course sounds like he has some kind of a filter in place that is
> stripping attachments from messages from me. But (1) this guy is the
> first to admit that he's not sophisticated enough to use filters, and
> (2) no matter which email account I use to send to this guy, the
> attachments don't get through.
>
> Any ideas what to look into?
I guess it would have helped if I mentioned that my Eudora 5.2 is for
the Macintosh.
A lot more digging helped me learn that there is a known bug between Mac
Eudora and many versions of Outlook (but I guess not Outlook Express).
http://home.cwru.edu/~wrv/eudoraoutlookfix.html has the best fix I've
seen. It allows any Outlook user to see and open attachments from me.
I also played around and if I retain the default setting (not the
alternative described in the link above) and send attachments using the
"Double Apple" (MIME) or UUencode, instead of BinHex, that works too.
But that's something that I have to remember every time instead of the
"set and forget" fix documented above.
This still is an odd one to me, and I'd love to hear if there are other
fixes better than what I've listed above.
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