When my father tries to send me an attachment such as one of the short
video things that eveyone sends you in e-mail, it gets broken up into
a bunch of seperate e-mails. He sent me a short video clip, about 2mb
in size, and it came to me as 78 different e-mails none of contained
anything. Any ideas??

Is he using Outlook Express? Have him go to Tools | Accounts | Mail |
Properties | Advanced and uncheck: "Break apart messages larger
than.......".

If sending that way is the only option, then you have to put the message
back together.

From Help (F1). Combine and Decode messages.

To combine multipart messages

Sometimes, when a large message (one that contains pictures, audio files, or
other large objects) is sent in e-mail or posted to a newsgroup, it is
broken into smaller files and displayed as several messages. You can combine
the messages to recreate the original message and display it in Outlook
Express.

1.. Select all of the messages that are part of the original message (each
part will usually have a number).
2.. On the Message menu, click Combine and Decode.
3.. If needed, reorder the parts in the correct sequence.
Note

a.. After you combine and decode the message, it is displayed in a
separate window. The message will continue to be displayed in the message
list as several smaller messages. To save the recreated message, on the File
menu, click Save As.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

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When my father tries to send me an attachment such as one of the short
video things that eveyone sends you in e-mail, it gets broken up into
a bunch of seperate e-mails. He sent me a short video clip, about 2mb
in size, and it came to me as 78 different e-mails none of contained
anything. Any ideas??

Hi Gate Keeper,

The setting for breaking apart messages is under the Advanced tab of a mail
account's properties. Your father could try deselecting break-up of
messages. The size of a sent message may be limited by the ISP. It might be
necessary to break-up large messages, but 78 parts is excessive. Two or four
parts (do the math) could be tried if there is a problem sending the
complete file.

--
Tim K.
aka Kuay Tim
MS-MVP - Outlook Express
Lynnwood, WA
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When my father tries to send me an attachment such as one of the short
video things that eveyone sends you in e-mail, it gets broken up into
a bunch of seperate e-mails. He sent me a short video clip, about 2mb
in size, and it came to me as 78 different e-mails none of contained
anything. Any ideas??

On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:10:39 GMT, wrote:

When my father tries to send me an attachment such as one of the short
video things that eveyone sends you in e-mail, it gets broken up into
a bunch of seperate e-mails. He sent me a short video clip, about 2mb
in size, and it came to me as 78 different e-mails none of contained
anything. Any ideas??




Hey Guys. Thanks for the help. I just got off of the phone with dad
and he found the very thing that you both advised me on. I wish I had
found it before him. (Kind of a little father/son competition thing)
His was set to split up into 16kb pieces.

Thanks again for the help!!

You're welcome. Glad to help. (From Kuay Tim as well).
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

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On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:10:39 GMT, wrote:

When my father tries to send me an attachment such as one of the short
video things that eveyone sends you in e-mail, it gets broken up into
a bunch of seperate e-mails. He sent me a short video clip, about 2mb
in size, and it came to me as 78 different e-mails none of contained
anything. Any ideas??




Hey Guys. Thanks for the help. I just got off of the phone with dad
and he found the very thing that you both advised me on. I wish I had
found it before him. (Kind of a little father/son competition thing)
His was set to split up into 16kb pieces.

Thanks again for the help!!