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| Thread ID: 42577 | 2004-02-15 07:38:00 | Emails with attachments | parry (27) | Press F1 |
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| 215732 | 2004-02-15 07:38:00 | Hi all, on occassion I receive emails that have attachments but I am unable to extract the attachment separately as the attachment is actually in the message itself. I believe it is probably an HTML message. Theres nothing sinister about the emails its just (I believe) a peculiarity of the email client that the sender has used. I use Outlook 2002 and this problem exists regardless of whether I use this email client or go online to my ISP and download the message using their HTML email browser. The file itself if download has no extension and if changed to TXT you can read the textual portion and see the name of the zip file or whatever the attachment name is but of course there is gobldigook after the attachment name representing the file. The file size is too large to be just text and definitely includes the attached file. The question is if I receive emails like this in the future how do you extract the attachment from the text. Does anyone know of a program that can separate these? |
parry (27) | ||
| 215733 | 2004-02-15 09:18:00 | Some mail clients do this just in error, most of the time it is for an HTML e-mail, however you can specify an attachment in the header of an e-mail which will make it show the "paperclip" but not actually have an attachment. Eudora is common for this. |
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| 215734 | 2004-02-15 10:01:00 | Thanks for that, Im not familiar with what goes on behind the scenes with emails. The email definitely had a zip file attachment because I got it in the end. I contacted my ISP who managed to obtain the zip from the email and they resent it to me. However they couldnt advise how to extract it myself and it sounded as though they had some way at their end from seperating it from the message although they didnt really explain how. Im presuming its some option or way they can see an email at their end that your average user like myself cannot. If I can do this myself without spending an 1 hour plus getting through to a Help desk and speaking to 3 people before you get someone with some nouse then that would be preferable. I was grateful they could help but I could do without the mucking around. I would have thought this situation is not uncommon. Usually I would just trash the email or contact the sender and ask them to resend but if I had a way of fixing it at my end then that would save the hassle. Anyone know of someone who works at an ISP that could explain this a bit more? |
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| 215735 | 2004-02-15 12:23:00 | support.microsoft.com | Jim B (153) | ||
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