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[Guest]

Recently I discovered a problem with attachments to emails. Receiving an
email with a ZIP or EXE attachment, Windows Mail does not show the
attachments. Funny, but .txt attachments are visible.

Windows Mail (IMAP) is correctly installed; checkbox to open executable
attachments is activated.

Now I've installed Pegasus and it works fine. Pegasus shows me ZIP
attachments.

So, Microsoft, why do let me pay lots of $$ for a new system, while a no
cost mail system is able to work properly??

Anybody, has an idea how to solve this?
Best

 

[mikeyhsd]

check under Security tab of options and check the options there.



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Recently I discovered a problem with attachments to emails. Receiving an
email with a ZIP or EXE attachment, Windows Mail does not show the
attachments. Funny, but .txt attachments are visible.

Windows Mail (IMAP) is correctly installed; checkbox to open executable
attachments is activated.

Now I've installed Pegasus and it works fine. Pegasus shows me ZIP
attachments.

So, Microsoft, why do let me pay lots of $$ for a new system, while a no
cost mail system is able to work properly??

Anybody, has an idea how to solve this?
Best

 

[Steve Cochran]

See point 1 here: www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#1 Same with WinMail.

steve

 

[Guest]

I checked the option there; its off. It should show attachments, but it does
show .txt attachments only.

I tested with a friend sending me several emails with .zip attachments.
Windows Mail simply does not show .zip attachments.

 

[Steve Cochran]

Do a CTRL-F3 on the message and verify it has the zip attached to it. It
could have been stripped off by another program. WinMail won't do that.

steve

 

[Guest]

Dear Steve,

Thanks for your help.

Yes, the attachement is enclosed, but in text only, see a copy from source
code:

"- This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C74301.AB1DE580
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit


Hi Ernst,

here the .zip file again...

hope this helps

best
Ben

------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C74301.AB1DE580
Content-Type: application/ms-tnef;
name="winmail.dat"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="winmail.dat"

eJ8+IgQQAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAEIgAcAGAAAAElQTS5NaWNy
b3NvZnQgTWFpbC5Ob3RlADEIAQ2ABAACAAAAAgACAAEGgAMADgAAANcHAQAcABEAGwAAAAAAJwEB
A5AGAEgFAAAjAAAACwACAAEAAAALACMAAAAAAAMAJgAAAAAACwApAAAAAAADADYAAAAAAB4AcAAB
AAAADAAAAHVuZCBub2NobWFsAAIBcQABAAAAFgAAAAHHQvkk........."

So, data is there but its not konverted to a file... strage...

Thanks for your help,
Ernst

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

The message was sent from Outlook, using the Exchange RTF format. Either
the sender sent in RTF or an Exchange server changed it to RTF. Ask the
sender to send in Plain Text. If he tried to he will have to get the
Exchange server admenestrator to change its settings. OE cannot decode
ms-tnef attachments.

 

[Guest]

Frank,

Thanks a lot. I've asked the sender to do so as you said. He says he would
already use the correct settings.

What's also strange, is that other Email clients like Pegasus or Outlook
2003 show .zip attachments... (I could not yet test Outlook 2007)

....I will probably have to switch to the old Outlook version (2003). Also
Outlook 2003 shows .zip attachments correctly without problems.

Thanks for your help,
Ernst

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

If he is sending in plain text then the server is changing the attachment to
application/ms-tnef. OE can't handle that and there is nothing you can do
about it. The fact that it was a ZIP file is irrelevant.

 

[Steve Cochran]

Well, sometimes zips get stripped by servers and if you rename the file
zip.txt then it gets by them.

Done it with two major US corporations (top 10 <G>), that I won't name, but
have easily recognized names such as MS and GE.

steve

 

[Guest]

Thanks. That helps!

Well, sometimes zips get stripped by servers and if you rename the file
zip.txt then it gets by them.

Done it with two major US corporations (top 10 <G>), that I won't name, but
have easily recognized names such as MS and GE.

steve