Hello, we have a strange problem.

We are sending out hundreds of mail messages via MAPI, the mail is
just 1 line of text with an attached RTF file.

all the clients recieve the mail correct, but 2 persons get the mail
messed up.

They receive the mail in plain text and the attachement also in plain
text in the mail message?

The clients with troubles are using outlook express.

does anyone have any idea why almost all the outlook expresses show
this mail correctly, and some don't interpret the mail correct and
just show the mime header and such in the mail message itself, and not
showing the attachement as attached file but show the content of the
attachment in the mail message?

This is how they see the mail body:

start mail
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------_=_NextPart_001_01C85831.50979616
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

this is the line of text. attachedfile.rtf=20

------_=_NextPart_001_01C85831.50979616
Content-Type: application/rtf;
name="attachedfile.rtf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="attachedfile.rtf"

e1xydGYxXGFuc2lcZGVmZjB7XGZvbnR0Ymx7XGYwXGZuaWxcZm NoYXJzZXQwIENvdXJpZXIg
TmV3
.....
end mail

I don't know the answer.....but am curious to see the feedback as the same
thing happens to me on occasion! goes along with the message to the group
that I posted earlier, "Sudden image problem? haunted email!". Best of
luck!......Chava


"Stig" wrote in message
...
Hello, we have a strange problem.

We are sending out hundreds of mail messages via MAPI, the mail is
just 1 line of text with an attached RTF file.

all the clients recieve the mail correct, but 2 persons get the mail
messed up.

They receive the mail in plain text and the attachement also in plain
text in the mail message?

The clients with troubles are using outlook express.

does anyone have any idea why almost all the outlook expresses show
this mail correctly, and some don't interpret the mail correct and
just show the mime header and such in the mail message itself, and not
showing the attachement as attached file but show the content of the
attachment in the mail message?

This is how they see the mail body:

start mail
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------_=_NextPart_001_01C85831.50979616
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

this is the line of text. attachedfile.rtf=20

------_=_NextPart_001_01C85831.50979616
Content-Type: application/rtf;
name="attachedfile.rtf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="attachedfile.rtf"

e1xydGYxXGFuc2lcZGVmZjB7XGZvbnR0Ymx7XGYwXGZuaWxcZm NoYXJzZXQwIENvdXJpZXIg
TmV3
....
end mail

Are you sending the message itself in Plain Text format?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
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Stig wrote:
Hello, we have a strange problem.

We are sending out hundreds of mail messages via MAPI, the mail is
just 1 line of text with an attached RTF file.

all the clients recieve the mail correct, but 2 persons get the mail
messed up.

They receive the mail in plain text and the attachement also in plain
text in the mail message?

The clients with troubles are using outlook express.

does anyone have any idea why almost all the outlook expresses show
this mail correctly, and some don't interpret the mail correct and
just show the mime header and such in the mail message itself, and not
showing the attachement as attached file but show the content of the
attachment in the mail message?

This is how they see the mail body:

start mail
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------_=_NextPart_001_01C85831.50979616
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

this is the line of text. attachedfile.rtf=20

------_=_NextPart_001_01C85831.50979616
Content-Type: application/rtf;
name="attachedfile.rtf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="attachedfile.rtf"

e1xydGYxXGFuc2lcZGVmZjB7XGZvbnR0Ymx7XGYwXGZuaWxcZm NoYXJzZXQwIENvdXJpZXIg
TmV3
....
end mail

If the recipients are seeing the MIME headers in the normal message
reading window then the MIME headers are corrupted when it arrives on
OE.

The likely culprit is either their anti-virus program scanning e-mail or
they are running an anti-spam program. SpamKiller is known to cause
corruption of MIME headers in some cases. It screws up the boundary
headers.

See the Problems and Complications section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...de.htm#problem



--

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


"Stig" wrote in message
...
Hello, we have a strange problem.

We are sending out hundreds of mail messages via MAPI, the mail is
just 1 line of text with an attached RTF file.

all the clients recieve the mail correct, but 2 persons get the mail
messed up.

They receive the mail in plain text and the attachement also in plain
text in the mail message?

The clients with troubles are using outlook express.

does anyone have any idea why almost all the outlook expresses show
this mail correctly, and some don't interpret the mail correct and
just show the mime header and such in the mail message itself, and not
showing the attachement as attached file but show the content of the
attachment in the mail message?

This is how they see the mail body:

start mail
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------_=_NextPart_001_01C85831.50979616
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

this is the line of text. attachedfile.rtf=20

------_=_NextPart_001_01C85831.50979616
Content-Type: application/rtf;
name="attachedfile.rtf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="attachedfile.rtf"

e1xydGYxXGFuc2lcZGVmZjB7XGZvbnR0Ymx7XGYwXGZuaWxcZm NoYXJzZXQwIENvdXJpZXIg
TmV3
....
end mail

thank you for the replies, i'll ask with the clients of they are
running antispam or antivirus programs


On 8 feb, 20:34, "Michael Santovec"
wrote:
If the recipients are seeing the MIME headers in the normal message
reading window then the MIME headers are corrupted when it arrives on
OE.

The likely culprit is either their anti-virus program scanning e-mail or
they are running an anti-spam program. SpamKiller is known to cause
corruption of MIME headers in some cases. It screws up the boundary
headers.

See the Problems and Complications section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorialhttp://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/decode.htm#problem

--

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

"Stig" wrote in message

...

Hello, we have a strange problem.

We are sending out hundreds of mail messages via MAPI, the mail is
just 1 line of text with an attached RTF file.

all the clients recieve the mail correct, but 2 persons get the mail
messed up.

They receive the mail in plain text and the attachement also in plain
text in the mail message?

The clients with troubles are using outlook express.

does anyone have any idea why almost all the outlook expresses show
this mail correctly, and some don't interpret the mail correct and
just show the mime header and such in the mail message itself, and not
showing the attachement as attached file but show the content of the
attachment in the mail message?

This is how they see the mail body:

start mail
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------_=_NextPart_001_01C85831.50979616
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

this is the line of text. attachedfile.rtf=20

------_=_NextPart_001_01C85831.50979616
Content-Type: application/rtf;
name="attachedfile.rtf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="attachedfile.rtf"

e1xydGYxXGFuc2lcZGVmZjB7XGZvbnR0Ymx7XGYwXGZuaWxcZm NoYXJzZXQwIENvdXJpZXIg
TmV3
....
end mail