email attacments arrive as originalmail.eml

[Guest]

When I am sending emails from work to home and friends the attachments always
arrive as originalmail.eml which when opened has nothing inside.

 

[Brian Tillman]

When I am sending emails from work to home and friends the
attachments always arrive as originalmail.eml which when opened has
nothing inside.

Since .eml files are Outlook Express files, I think you're in the wron g
newsgroup. Try
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general instead.

 

[Guest]

I too have just recently started having this problem whereas I didn't before.
My work uses O2003 whilst my home PC is using O2007. Definitely not OExpress.
It is rather strange because I have sent various emails from work with
different attachments - XLS, PPT, DOC and they all end up embedded in an
attachment titled "originalemail.eml".
The extra weird thing is that the received email includes the companies
copyright autosignature on the bottom, but none of my text above it.
So I did a test where I set up a redirect of the email on my ISP account
straight back to work. When I checked it as webmail, no problems and it
arrived at work all OK. However at home it arrived embedded.

So my conclusion is its something to do with my O2007
Can anyone shed more light?

Rod

 

[Guest]

Bizzarre!
Today it worked all fine! I suspect it has something to do with the ISP's
SPAM filter.
I set up my web mail on the ISP log in to automatically redirect my home
emails back to work.
I sent a five test emails with different types of attachments and 1 without
an attachment.
Strangely only 2 of the emails "bounced" back to my work !!!
I then had my son log in at home and all emails arrived and they weren't
with the "eml" attachment - all normal.
I then tried a couple of other tests with the bounce setting still on and
off and strangely only 3 of the 5 emails bounced back - 1 the same and 2
different as before - go figure!!!
The fact that they all arrived correctly at home but they were "selectively
bounced" makes me think it is something in the ISP server filter for SPAM
stripping stuff out and reattaching it.
It also tends to suggest that it is not the antivirus on my computer
(Norton) as the PC wasn't even switched on when I did the first test.

I know this doesn't give an absolute answer but it might help those more in
teh know!!

cheers