Why does an email with inline text arrive as a txt attachment?

[Symphonitron]

I have a strange problem. I receive automated reports to both an Outlook 2003
and an Outlook 2007 account. This report has an inline text attachment. In
Outlook 2003, I get the text inline, so it appears in the body of the email
as I want. I have VBA which parses this data.

But in Outlook 2007, it arrives as a txt attachment, not inline, and
therefore the VBA on that side fails to find any data.

I cannot find any setting in Outlook 2007 that is causing this. It's for
incoming emails.

If I receive an inline HTML attachment, it works okay. But not inline Text.
Anyone know why?

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:57:01 AM, and on a
whim, Symphonitron pounded out on the keyboard:

I have a strange problem. I receive automated reports to both an Outlook 2003
and an Outlook 2007 account. This report has an inline text attachment. In
Outlook 2003, I get the text inline, so it appears in the body of the email
as I want. I have VBA which parses this data.

But in Outlook 2007, it arrives as a txt attachment, not inline, and
therefore the VBA on that side fails to find any data.

I cannot find any setting in Outlook 2007 that is causing this. It's for
incoming emails.

If I receive an inline HTML attachment, it works okay. But not inline Text.
Anyone know why?

Security feature I suppose.

If I send an HTML attachment to OL2007, it still doesn't show inline.
Are you talking about an HTML composed message?


Terry R.

 

[Symphonitron]

The email is coming from an automated report server. But your question
prompted me to test something and this is interesting...

I had received the report in Outlook 2003 with the csv text inline. So I
forwarded that email straight to my account in Outlook 2007, and when the
email came in the text was inline.

So maybe this has something to do with how the report server sends the
initial csv information.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was Thu Apr 16 2009 14:03:01 GMT-0700 (Pacific
Daylight Time), and on a whim, Symphonitron pounded out on the keyboard:

The email is coming from an automated report server. But your question
prompted me to test something and this is interesting...

I had received the report in Outlook 2003 with the csv text inline. So I
forwarded that email straight to my account in Outlook 2007, and when the
email came in the text was inline.

So maybe this has something to do with how the report server sends the
initial csv information.

Sounds like it's embedding the data into the email rather than an actual
file?


Terry R.