[Ti] Mail attachment problems: a suggestion

[F. Mortes]

Les,

I've had similar problems sending attachments (Word, Excel files) with  
Mail. I believe this has to do with the way Mail encodes attachments  
and the fact that Mac files come with a resource fork which Wintel  
machines don't know what to do with.

GrimRipper (get it from Versiontracker.com) will add a service you can  
access by holding the Control key and clicking on files you want to  
attach to a message. This service allows you to delete the resource  
fork. It's really made a difference for me.

Just my 2 cents.

Francesc in Barcelona


On Thursday, Mar 13, 2003, at 01:49 Europe/Madrid, Les Posen wrote:

> I posted the message below on the Mac OS X user list, but only got one  
> response, which I found an unsuitable workaround.
>
> So perhaps those on the Ti list can bring a different set of resources  
> to my question, and apologies for cross-postings.
>
> Original question:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I am persisting with Mail, but beginning to drift back into Eudora  
> usage.
>
> I have attempted on a number of occasions to send MS Word and Excel  
> files to various recipients from Mail, only to have them say they are  
> unable to open the documents, or if they can they're mangled (in the  
> case of Excel.)
>
> The Excel files were originally sent to me from Windows boxes, and  
> after filling in (taxes!) being mailed back to the same. I can open  
> them on my own Windows box after transferring them via the network,  
> not email, so the corruption takes place at the Mail side of things.  
> To confirm, I emailed the same files from both Mail and Eudora to  
> Outlook Express 5 in Virtual PC W98.
>
> Eudora's opened as doc files, while Mail's came through as generic  
> .dat files, with W98 asking how it should open them. Wordpad opened  
> the Eudora-sent files.
>
> Any ideas what Mail is doing, and where to go to change it, whatever  
> it is? I can get by using Mail to receive and take advantage of its  
> Spam technology, and send attachments from Eudora, but it's really a  
> PITA to do it that way. All help gleefully accepted.
>
> Les
>
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