Are you running any anti-spam and anti-virus scanning e-mail? Either
of those can screw up the message headers confusing OE.


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"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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The sender is using OE6 with 'break apart messages' activated. He has
sent large (about 2Mb) *.jpg files which arrive in my OE6 as multiple
smaller files (about 500Kb each) each with extension *.dat. They are
not automatically combined as they should be. If I select all the
parts of the received file and then use 'Combine and Decode' to ensure
they are in the correct order and then click OK I get message
'Combining the messages'. I then get a receive window containing just
one of the parts, still with extension *.dat.

I remember some time ago I was able to receive such messages
successfully and they combined automatically without using 'Combine
and decode'. Now there appears to be no way it will work! What can
the problem be?


"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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OE will attempt to automatically combine E-mail messages if they are
downloaded together. For Newsgroups, it must be done manually.

In what way does combine and decode not work?

You must highlight all the parts first. And all the parts must all
be there.

When you select Combine and Decode you must reorder the parts in the
dialog presented unless they are already in order.

And when done, OE should present you with a single message with the
combined message and hopefully decoded attachment. But if it's an
encoding method that OE doesn't support, such as yEnc, then you'll be
left with a large text message which you'll need to save and use a
manual decoder on.



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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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My OE6 works fine in all respects except when receiving large
attachments which have been split into smaller multiple parts by the
sender's OE6. I remember some time ago this used to work ok but now
the parts do not combine automatically nor does 'combine and decode'
work.

What is wrong??

I am using WinXP SP2 fully updated.