Hi,

I have an intermittent problem. I have occasions where I have emails
that are received in yahoo mail, with attachments. These vary from
word docs, hypertext links and other. However, the attachments are not
shown when the emails are delivered via outlook express.

If its clear an attachment should be there, looking on yahoo on the web
is the only way I can view them.

Is there a setting I can change or do I have a more serious problem.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated ;-)

Jeff

It might be this issue:

If messages are sent using the Exchange family of mail programs
(includes Windows Messaging or Outlook97/98/2000+) and the option to use
Rich Text Format is selected, it puts the RTF message (and any attached
files) in an attachment called WINMAIL.DAT (application/ms-tnef). But
this attachment is useless to most other mail programs. In some mail
programs (e.g. Outlook Express), the attachment won't even be visible.

If you look at the Message Source (Ctrl-F3) for one of the problem
message in Outlook Express you can see if there is a WINMAIL.DAT
attachment.

For additional information, see the MS-TNEF WINMAIL.DAT Attachments
section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...de.htm#ms-tnef


--

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


"Jeff" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have an intermittent problem. I have occasions where I have emails
that are received in yahoo mail, with attachments. These vary from
word docs, hypertext links and other. However, the attachments are not
shown when the emails are delivered via outlook express.

If its clear an attachment should be there, looking on yahoo on the
web
is the only way I can view them.

Is there a setting I can change or do I have a more serious problem.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated ;-)

Jeff

On 6 Jun 2006 01:02:36 -0700, Jeff wrote:

Hi,

I have an intermittent problem. I have occasions where I have emails
that are received in yahoo mail, with attachments. These vary from
word docs, hypertext links and other. However, the attachments are not
shown when the emails are delivered via outlook express.

If its clear an attachment should be there, looking on yahoo on the web
is the only way I can view them.

Is there a setting I can change or do I have a more serious problem.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated ;-)

I can't find a setting in MSOE which can affect the viewing of
attachments, other than the security setting for blocking the display of
attachments. That should not be intermittent, though, but permanent.

FWIW, I just tested MSOE 6.00.2800.1123 (w/ msoe.dll 6.00.2800.1478).
The attachments display just fine.

Could it be that the sender is using a client which breaks MIME?

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

"Jeff" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have an intermittent problem. I have occasions where I have emails
that are received in yahoo mail, with attachments. These vary from
word docs, hypertext links and other. However, the attachments are not
shown when the emails are delivered via outlook express.

If its clear an attachment should be there, looking on yahoo on the web
is the only way I can view them.

Is there a setting I can change or do I have a more serious problem.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated ;-)

Jeff


If you have OE6 SP2 go to Tools | Options | Read and uncheck Read all
messages in plain text.

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