Outlook 2007 eml attachment problem

[Mamba]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out why a forwarded .eml attachment (sent from
Thunderbird, containing email txt) is incomplete when opened in
Outlook 2007. Mail store is iPlanet IMAP. The fwd'd mail and
attachment from Tbird is HTML format.
It appears that when Outlook pulls down the attachment it converts it
to .msg format and truncates all of the inline quoted text, leaving
only the last non-quoted part of the message.
I've tried various "text only" settings in both Tbird and Outlook but
the fwd'd attachment already contains HTML and I don't think those
apply to it.
The only work-around I have thus far would be to ask the senders to
Reply (changing the To: to my address) instead of Fwd from Tbird since
then Tbird places the attached email contents inline. But that's a
poor solution.

TIA,

M

 

[F.H. Muffman]

I'm trying to figure out why a forwarded .eml attachment (sent from

Thunderbird, containing email txt) is incomplete when opened in
Outlook 2007. Mail store is iPlanet IMAP. The fwd'd mail and
attachment from Tbird is HTML format.
It appears that when Outlook pulls down the attachment it converts it
to .msg format and truncates all of the inline quoted text, leaving
only the last non-quoted part of the message.
I've tried various "text only" settings in both Tbird and Outlook but
the fwd'd attachment already contains HTML and I don't think those
apply to it.
The only work-around I have thus far would be to ask the senders to
Reply (changing the To: to my address) instead of Fwd from Tbird since
then Tbird places the attached email contents inline. But that's a
poor solution.

What type of mail server? Outlook won't convert any attachment type to a
different format without some plugin or something else acting upon it.

I'm wondering what happens if you try a different mail client, assuming it's
a pop/imap account, or if you access your mailbox via a web based access
type.