.eml .email attachments auto open media player

[pamelajr]

This is my second post. All emails with .email attachments from my brother
and some from others automatically open windows media player and do not open
the attachment. Windows mail IS selected when I right click & 'open with'
and the box is checked for always use this program. Can someone please help
with this. I have researched ad nauseum for this problem and cannot get it
fixed. Thank you.

 

[Dave]

It sounds like he is sending you a forwarded message, except instead of
hitting just "Forward", he's hitting "Forward as attachment", which is
creating the .email attachment. Ask him to use just "Forward".
This won't fix your problem, but it may alleviate it.

 

[Steve Cochran]

Save the attachments to the Desktop. Then right click on the file and
choose Open With and then specify to open it with WinMail.exe (Windows
Mail). You can also go to Control Panel | Default programs and set WinMail
as default and you can associate a file type with a program there.

steve

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]]

If you set an association for .email files this way, you don't get the
desired results - Windows Mail opens, not the message. The problem is the
way Vista creates the "Open" verb. The command created by saving an .email
file and selecting Windows Mail as the default is:

"C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\winmail.exe" "%1"

It SHOULD read:

"C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\winmail.exe" /eml:%1

One way to fix this is to let Vista create the association, then use a file
association editor to change the Open verb command string. I've found two
different FREE association editors that will do this:

http://www.sapien.com/download.aspx?file=filetyp
FileTypes Editor
http://frank.neatstep.com/custom/get.php?f=ftm201.zip
File Type Manager 2.0.1

Hal
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