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From: Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: extra .ATT attachments?
Date: 16 Sep 1999 17:57:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uogf294kv.fsf@lanber.cam.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jaap-Henk Hoepman's message of "16 Sep 1999 09:19:41 +0200"

JH> Jaap-Henk Hoepman <URL:mailto:hoepman@cs.utwente.nl>

0> In article <kpg10ftjaq.fsf@utip376.cs.utwente.nl>, JH wrote:

JH> When I send mail with attachments to people using MS Outlook, they
JH> see an extra attachment <blurp>.ATT included in the file. They cannot
JH> open this file, and this causes quite some confusion. Apparently its
JH> my signature that is contained in this attachment (as it does not
JH> show up in elsewhere in their message pane).
JH>
JH>
JH>
JH> --=-=-=
JH>
JH>
JH> --
JH> Jaap-Henk Hoepman             | Come sail your ships around me
JH> Dept. of Computer Science     | And burn these bridges down


Is Outlook assuming "Content-Disposition: attachment"?  Does it help
to explictly write "Content-Disposition: inline" after the multipart
separator?

Or maybe it's even more broken, and doesn't correctly default to
text/plain for unlabelled parts?



  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-09-16 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-16  7:19 Jaap-Henk Hoepman
1999-09-16 15:08 ` Nathan Williams
1999-09-16 15:34   ` Lee Willis
1999-09-16 15:40     ` Nathan Williams
1999-09-16 18:27       ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-09-25  9:28       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-16 15:20 ` Jack Vinson
1999-09-16 16:57 ` Toby Speight [this message]
1999-09-16 17:25   ` Jody Klymak
1999-09-16 18:28     ` David S. Goldberg
1999-09-18 21:07       ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-17 21:40 ` Jack Vinson

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