[P1] Kinda OT: AOL picture attachments

Fisher, Patrick patrick.m.fisher at wamu.net
Mon Dec 30 14:16:16 PST 2002


Mark, thanks for your help. I think the only real solution is to ditch
AOL.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark O'Brien [mailto:rmobrien at mac.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 1:44 PM

This situation came up for me a couple of years ago. What I learned is
that AOL can only handle one attachment at a time and it can't be more
than a certain file size (which I can't recall). More than this is when
the mangling occurs.

When I was sending from Entourage using Apple Double encoding, even
though it was going to a Mac AOL user it was getting screwed up. That's
because AOL saw two separate files being sent - the data fork and the
resource fork.

I solved the problem by changing my Entourage encoding setting to
Windows
(Base64/MIME) so AOL would only see one file attached.

As another response mentioned, you can also avoid the problem by zipping
or stuffing multiple files so there's only one attachment.



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