[X Newbies] Mail Attachment Issue

[David Boag]

Sure.

Most of the recipients I'm referring to cannot open the attachments, 
even if it's just a jpeg or pdf. Same thing with Word files. This is 
particularly true with AOL recipients.

On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 10:04  AM, Mac OS X Newbies wrote:

> Can you elaborate on 'do not go through properly'?
>
> - cricket
>
> On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 9:21 AM, David Boag wrote:
>
>> This has always bothered me, but every once in a while, 
>> particularly=20=
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>> with AOL recipients, my attachments do not go through properly 
>> using=20=
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>> Apple's Mail (both beta and 1.0). These are PC users I believe.
>>
>> My workaround is to use Entourage X and set the encoding for 
>> Windows.=20=
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>> Then they receive it no problem.
>>
>> Does anyone else struggle with this issue? Is there any such 
>> selection=20=
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>> to change encoding of attachments in Mail, or do I have to keep=20
>> Entourage on my drive for just such cases?
>>
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David R. Boag, DDS
spikedds at bellsouth.net