I have received a few emails from a friend who writes to me all of the time
but now I am having trouble opening the attachments. The attachments are "
Message5.txt(97.3 kb). I have tried saving them and renaming them EML but
still when I try to open I receive a page in note pad that looks to be
encrypted.I have also unchecked the box for security in the options drop
down. I checked with the sender and she said she did nothing different in
sending them. Anyone have any ideas on this one? Thanks Herb

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Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne

Is your friend using MS Outlook and RTF formatting?
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

Chip and Roxanne wrote:
I have received a few emails from a friend who writes to me all of the
time
but now I am having trouble opening the attachments. The attachments are "
Message5.txt(97.3 kb). I have tried saving them and renaming them EML but
still when I try to open I receive a page in note pad that looks to be
encrypted.I have also unchecked the box for security in the options drop
down. I checked with the sender and she said she did nothing different in
sending them. Anyone have any ideas on this one? Thanks Herb

I no she is using Outlook I am not sure about the RTF formatting. But up
until this point I have never had any problems opening her email
attachments. I also forgot to mention that I just recently installed Service
Pack 2 and all of the security downloads. I was wondering if this could be
part of the problem? Thanks Again!!

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Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne

To keep track of things, it helps immensely if you include all of previous
message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup. Thank you.

Short version: Ask this sender to only use Plain Text formatting when
sending to you, especially if there's an attachment. Outlook's RTF
formatting just doesn't "agree" with OE.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org


Chip and Roxanne wrote:
I no she is using Outlook I am not sure about the RTF formatting. But up
until this point I have never had any problems opening her email
attachments. I also forgot to mention that I just recently installed
Service
Pack 2 and all of the security downloads. I was wondering if this could be
part of the problem? Thanks Again!!

If the EML files open in Notepad, then you need to fix your EML file
association. Notepad is the wrong program.

OLEXP: Unable to Open EML File Attachments in Outlook Express
(Fixing the EML File Association)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312355


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


"Chip and Roxanne" wrote in message
...
I have received a few emails from a friend who writes to me all of the
time but now I am having trouble opening the attachments. The
attachments are " Message5.txt(97.3 kb). I have tried saving them and
renaming them EML but still when I try to open I receive a page in note
pad that looks to be encrypted.I have also unchecked the box for
security in the options drop down. I checked with the sender and she
said she did nothing different in sending them. Anyone have any ideas
on this one? Thanks Herb

--
Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne

Mike
When I tried the two ways that article Q312355 suggested I received a
message Windows can not find MSIMM/Reg. And when I tried re register the eni
file it said it couldn't find the file

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Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne

The cannot find error message means that you had a typo in the command.

Copy/paste the following into the Start, Run:

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

The quotes are required and there must be one of more spaces before the
/reg.

If the command is successful, it produces no output.

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


"Chip and Roxanne" wrote in message
...
Mike
When I tried the two ways that article Q312355 suggested I received a
message Windows can not find MSIMM/Reg. And when I tried re register
the eni file it said it couldn't find the file

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Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne

I tried the copy and paste to the run program and received a message that it
was not a valid folder and that it may be on a network computer or disk.
Neither of which I have

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Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne

"Chip and Roxanne" wrote in message
...
I tried the copy and paste to the run program and received a message that
it was not a valid folder and that it may be on a network computer or disk.
Neither of which I have

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Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne


Did you include the quotation marks?
Is msimn.exe in that folder?

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Do not send mail.

"Chip and Roxanne" wrote in message
...
I have received a few emails from a friend who writes to me all of the time
but now I am having trouble opening the attachments. The attachments are "
Message5.txt(97.3 kb). I have tried saving them and renaming them EML but
still when I try to open I receive a page in note pad that looks to be
encrypted.


More likely encoded. E.g. a renamed zip file could have a similar
appearance. Etc.

Did your friend explain what the file is supposed to be?
And how it was created? Also ask what the original size was.
A truncated E-mail in plain text might not be decoded correctly
and result in gibberish.

What is the message format of the E-mail? If it is MIME look for
more clues about the attachment in its headers, such as Content-type: etc.


I have also unchecked the box for security in the options drop
down. I checked with the sender and she said she did nothing different in
sending them. Anyone have any ideas on this one? Thanks Herb


Why are you being so trusting of something you're not sure of?
This is how Trojans spread their payloads. ; ]


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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