[Esd-l] Weird behavior on some attachments

Mark Wendt wendt at kingcrab.nrl.navy.mil
Thu Dec 20 08:49:00 PST 2001


Bjarni,


At 04:24 PM 12/20/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>It's called winmail.dat when it's UU encoded, it doesn't have a file
>name when it's MIME encoded.  The settings to beware of are "Rich
>text format" somewhere in the Outlook menus. :-)

         So that's why I was seeing the MIME encoded executable as the body 
of the email using Outlook 2000 email.  But the weird thing is, I checked 
the settings in my Outlook 2000, and it's configured to send the email in 
plain text.


>If that's not it, and you can't get John's code to work then you
>might want to try mine.
>
>--
>Bjarni R. Einarsson                           PGP: 02764305, B7A3AB89
>  bre at klaki.net                -><-              http://bre.klaki.net/


Mark



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