Well I have tried all of your suggestions and it has not helped me at all. I
do appreciate the effort and want to thank everyone for their efforts. I
guess I was just not suppose to see the attachments. Thanks Again Herb

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Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne

Are you still at the point that when you try to open an EML attachment,
it opens in Notepad?

Right click the short cut that you use to open Outlook Express., and
select Properties.

Does the Target line contain:

"C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe"

or something else?

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


"Chip and Roxanne" wrote in message
...
Well I have tried all of your suggestions and it has not helped me at
all. I do appreciate the effort and want to thank everyone for their
efforts. I guess I was just not suppose to see the attachments. Thanks
Again Herb

--
Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne

Well mike bad news that is what it says "C:\Program Files\Outlook
Express\msimn.exe". I also received two more messages from the same person
today and the attachments went to note pad again when I tried to open them
and looked like encrypted stuff. It is being sent in the mims format and
version1 I figured that much out but that is all I can figure out. This is
the only person I have trouble with and it is really bothering me but I
don't no of anything else to try as you guys have about run the gauntlet
trying to help me. Thanks Again Herb

--
Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne

If you would like, you may send me one of the problem messages and I'll
take a look at it. It's best if you zip the message so that I get an
exact copy of it. To do that, do a File, Save As to an EML file of a
problem message. Then Right click the saved EML file and select Send
To, Compressed (zipped) folder. Then e-mail me the resulting ZIP file.
Alternately, you can do a Message, Forward As Attachment of a problem
message. This is not as good as the zip file since the headers can be
modified in transit which may obscure the problem. A simple Forward is
worthless since it does not include the headers.

That way I can verify that it is actually an EML attachment and not
something wrong with the message.

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


"Chip and Roxanne" wrote in message
...
Well mike bad news that is what it says "C:\Program Files\Outlook
Express\msimn.exe". I also received two more messages from the same
person today and the attachments went to note pad again when I tried
to open them and looked like encrypted stuff. It is being sent in the
mims format and version1 I figured that much out but that is all I can
figure out. This is the only person I have trouble with and it is
really bothering me but I don't no of anything else to try as you guys
have about run the gauntlet trying to help me. Thanks Again Herb

--
Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne

I received the sample message from the original poster. And for the
benefit of others following this thread, this is what I found and
replied back to the poster.

This is a complicated message because it's been forwarded multiple times
through various somewhat incompatible e-mail systems. The original
sender used MS Exchange to send it to an AOL user who forwarded it to a
Hotmail user who forwarded it to you.

In the message, as you received it, is a MESSAGE5.TXT attachment.

1) You need to save that attachment (e.g. File, Save Attachments)
2) You then need to rename the MESSAGE5.TXT to an EML file (e.g.
MESSAGE5.EML)
3) You then need to open the MESSAGE5.EML file by double clicking it.
It should open in an Outlook Express message reading window (This is the
message as received by the Hotmail user)
4) In the message opened in step 3 you should see an attachment named
"Gotta See This ..." with an envelope icon in front of it. Double click
that to open and it should open in an Outlook Express message reading
window. (This is the message as received by the AOL user)
5) In the message that opened in step 4 you should see an attachment
named "Landon_Rulesfran.wmv". That's a Windows Media Player video.
Double clicking that should open in Windows Media Player (or other
suitable video player.)

If in steps 3 and 4, the EML files don't open in an Outlook Express
message reading window, then we still need to fix your EML file
association.




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


"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
If you would like, you may send me one of the problem messages and
I'll take a look at it. It's best if you zip the message so that I
get an exact copy of it. To do that, do a File, Save As to an EML
file of a problem message. Then Right click the saved EML file and
select Send To, Compressed (zipped) folder. Then e-mail me the
resulting ZIP file. Alternately, you can do a Message, Forward As
Attachment of a problem message. This is not as good as the zip file
since the headers can be modified in transit which may obscure the
problem. A simple Forward is worthless since it does not include the
headers.

That way I can verify that it is actually an EML attachment and not
something wrong with the message.

--

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


"Chip and Roxanne" wrote in message
...
Well mike bad news that is what it says "C:\Program Files\Outlook
Express\msimn.exe". I also received two more messages from the same
person today and the attachments went to note pad again when I tried
to open them and looked like encrypted stuff. It is being sent in the
mims format and version1 I figured that much out but that is all I
can figure out. This is the only person I have trouble with and it is
really bothering me but I don't no of anything else to try as you
guys have about run the gauntlet trying to help me. Thanks Again Herb

--
Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne

cf.
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...c9fe8da3e339fb
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

Chip and Roxanne wrote:
Well mike bad news that is what it says "C:\Program Files\Outlook
Express\msimn.exe". I also received two more messages from the same person
today and the attachments went to note pad again when I tried to open them
and looked like encrypted stuff. It is being sent in the mims format and
version1 I figured that much out but that is all I can figure out. This is
the only person I have trouble with and it is really bothering me but I
don't no of anything else to try as you guys have about run the gauntlet
trying to help me. Thanks Again Herb