You have 2 issues going on.

A .email (or .ema) or .ezm file is an alternate file extension for an
..EML file. One option is to save the attachment, then rename with an
..EML file name.

Or you can create a file association for .email, .ema or .ezm files.

You can get to File Associations via:
- My Computer
- View (Win95/98/NT4/Me) or Tools (Win2000 or WinXP) menu
- Folder Options (or Options)
- File Types
- New Type
- New
- Action: OPEN

The application used needs to be:
"C:\PROGRAM FILES\OUTLOOK EXPRESS\MSIMN.EXE" /eml:%1

Content Type (MIME) should be:
message/rfc822

The .email is actually a forwarded message. Once you fix that issue
you'll be able to the .email attachment. When you do that you'll have a
message with a PPS attachment from your example. See Bruce's message
for how to fix the issue with the PPS attachment.


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


"Van R" wrote in message
...
I receive email from a friend who is using MSN.com for an ISP
occassionally.
Usually it has an attachment and I have yet to figure out how to open
this
attachment. I receive a lot of messages w/attachments from others and
have
no problem opening them. I contacted my friend about the emails he
sends and
my inability to open them and was told I was the only one complaining
about
them. I received one yesterday with the ".email" extension and, once
again,
could not open it. It immediately attempted to open in Notepad with
out
asking me. When I tried several other programs to open it, I was
unsuccessful as well. This is an example of what I see:

Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="z_ppt_Pamukkale_mhr.pps"

0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAAArwwAAAAAAAAA
EAAA/v///wAAAAD+////AAAAAJUMAACWDAAAlwwAAJgMAACZDAAAmgwAAJsMAACcDAAAnQ wAAJ4M
AACfDAAAoAwAAKEMAACiDAAAowwAAKQMAAClDAAApgwAAKcMAA CoDAAAqQwAAKoMAACrDAAArAwA
AK0MAACuDAAA////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/////

What am I doing wrong? How do I correct it?

Thanks!