[Ti] Mail attachment problems: a suggestion

[F. Mortes]

On Thursday, Mar 13, 2003, at 14:50 Europe/Madrid, Mark O'Brien wrote:
>

> It's not only Wintel machines that don't know what to do with Mac 
> files. Mac users with AOL have the same problem, at least in OS 9. AOL 
> splits Mac files into two separate files

Man, what a pain!

>
> My solution - I recently switched from Entourage to Mail.app for most 
> of my email needs. But in iPhoto's preferences, I still designate 
> Entourage as my email client for when I want to email photos. In 
> Entourage, I can set my Attachment settings to "Encode for Windows 
> (Base 64/MIME); No Compression". This has the effect of only sending 
> the data fork.

Clever.

>
> The real answer (short of converting everybody else from Wintel and 
> AOL) is for Apple to include some kind of preference settings for how 
> Mail.app handles outgoing attachments.

I couldn't agree more. I was rather hoping this would be a feature in 
Jaguar's Mail when I upgraded from 10.1.5, but sadly, no. To be 
perfectly fair, I suspect most Wintel users may have a feature in 
Outlook, etc that might allow them to receive Mac-sent attachments 
properly, but I find that, sadly, they tend to know so little about how 
their own apps work, that they quickly adopt that 
'oh-well-it-must-be-your-fault-'cause-you're-using-a-weird-OS' attitude 
we're all too familiar with. Sorry, that was too long a sentence.

Francesc