From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25125 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jack Vinson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: extra .ATT attachments? Date: 16 Sep 1999 10:20:12 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162569 12423 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:09:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA27264 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:23:52 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAB32699; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:23:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:24:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05097 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:24:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from gatekeeper2.monsanto.com (gatekeeper2.monsanto.com [199.89.234.124]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA27254 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:23:27 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by gatekeeper2.monsanto.com; id KAA04547; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:23:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mhstl1.monsanto.com(10.135.250.82) by gatekeeper2.monsanto.com via smap (V4.2) id xma003658; Thu, 16 Sep 99 10:22:13 -0500 Original-Received: from VINSON12 ([137.35.49.139]) by mhstl1.monsanto.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA25774 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:25:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Home-Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~vinson In-Reply-To: Jaap-Henk Hoepman's message of "16 Sep 1999 09:19:41 +0200" Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25125 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25125 >>>>> "JH" == Jaap-Henk Hoepman writes: JH> When I send mail with attachments to people using MS Outlook, they see JH> an extra attachment .ATT included in the file. They cannot open JH> this file, and this causes quite some confusion. Apparently its my JH> signature that is contained in this attachment (as it does not show up JH> in elsewhere in their message pane). JH> What is the problem and how can it be solved? I have noticed this problem as well when sending myself binary files for fun (to see how well Outlook worked). The basic problem is that Outlook does not understand multipart messages. It can deal happily with multiple attachments. But any time you place text after an attachment, you will get a *.ATT file. I assume this has something to do with putting inlined text between attachments. Outlook seems to expect all attachments to be at the end of the MIME message. When there is extra stuff it gets confused. I assume the "correct" behavior is for it to treat the extra stuff as plain old text. -- Jack Vinson Bart: I will not grease the monkey bars.