Re: Outlook (not OE) stripping attachments I send

From: RogerDodger (123_at_456.789)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:14:38 GMT

In article <BC754A299668B0B33A@0.0.0.0>,
 peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote:

> In article <123-BACE65.16554510032004@syrcnyrdrs-02-ge0.nyroc.rr.com>,
> RogerDodger <123@456.789> wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> In practice, AppleDouble is preferable to Bin-Hex anyway, as everybody can
> handle it, Mac and PeeCee alike, and all the info is conveyed.
>
> You can set it as the default encoding in Special:Settings:Attachments. Set
> the encoding method to Appledouble, and you're done.

I am testing this by emailing from my Mac/Eudora to a yahoo mail account.

If I send a Word document using the modified content-id header, but
Bin-Hex encoding, when I do "View Attachment" in yahoo mail, the
attachment is pure gibberish. I can't even get it to save on a Windows
PC.

If I send a Word document using the normal content-id header with MIME
(Double Apple) encoding, the attachment is viewable in Yahoo Mail view
attachment, but has some garbage characters in it. If I try saving the
attachment from yahoo mail onto my Mac, my browser doesn't recognize it
as a Word document and saves it as something else. I can force Word to
open the document up, but it's not recognizable as the format I sent it.

Granted, this is off topic from my original post, but I think it falls
into the same set of issues - somehow Eudora on the Mac is having a
miscommunication with the majority in the non-Mac world.

Is there a "better" solution for me on my end? Does Eudora 6 address
this issue better? Are there simple solutions to suggest to Outlook
users (since I think the real issue is on the Outlook side, not the
Eudora side)?

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