I use OE, and frequently, when AOL victims send me mail with an attachment,
I'll go to open it and find another e-mail within, and have to open the next
attachment...sometimes as many as 4-5 levels. Sort of like peeling an
artichoke. I've heard theories that this is because of the way OE handles
MIME. Any truth to this?

Nested messages (*.EML files) is a common problem when messages come
from AOL, WebTV or Netscape. Some mail programs, such as AOL, always do
a Forward as Attachment. Netscape does this by default, but the sender
can do a "Forward Quoted" instead to avoid the problem.

Often the attachment includes "Content-Disposition: inline". Some mail
programs honor this. Unfortunately OE doesn't. With the exception of
images (which is controlled by Tools, Options, Read in OE4 or a registry
setting in OE5), OE will not display attachments Inline. Instead you
have to open each attachment. If a message has been forward 10 times
you need to go down 10 levels of opening attachments.

If they are simple text messages, a quick workaround is to look at the
Message Source (Ctrl-F3).


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


"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...
I use OE, and frequently, when AOL victims send me mail with an
attachment, I'll go to open it and find another e-mail within, and have
to open the next attachment...sometimes as many as 4-5 levels. Sort of
like peeling an artichoke. I've heard theories that this is because of
the way OE handles MIME. Any truth to this?

Thanks, Mike.


"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
Nested messages (*.EML files) is a common problem when messages come from
AOL, WebTV or Netscape. Some mail programs, such as AOL, always do a
Forward as Attachment. Netscape does this by default, but the sender can
do a "Forward Quoted" instead to avoid the problem.

Often the attachment includes "Content-Disposition: inline". Some mail
programs honor this. Unfortunately OE doesn't. With the exception of
images (which is controlled by Tools, Options, Read in OE4 or a registry
setting in OE5), OE will not display attachments Inline. Instead you have
to open each attachment. If a message has been forward 10 times you need
to go down 10 levels of opening attachments.

If they are simple text messages, a quick workaround is to look at the
Message Source (Ctrl-F3).


--

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


"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...
I use OE, and frequently, when AOL victims send me mail with an
attachment, I'll go to open it and find another e-mail within, and have to
open the next attachment...sometimes as many as 4-5 levels. Sort of like
peeling an artichoke. I've heard theories that this is because of the way
OE handles MIME. Any truth to this?