Vista is converting all my Winmail and Winlivemail to attachments

Bruce, thanks for your help. I accomplished the following:

1) I cleared the TEMP and TEMPORARY INTERNET folders.

2) I set the encoding to Western (ISO) in Internet Explorer.

3) I made sure that "Read All Messages In Plain Text" is NOT checked.

I still have the problem. It must be related to Winmail or Vista on my PC
since not only do the Inbox emails I receive show as attachments but, every
saved email (Some years old) in ALL my folders also show as attachments when
I try to open them. I cannot find any option in Winmail that might cause
this other than the one I made sure was unchecked.

I also did the following:

1) I just setup an old PC running Windows XP and Outlook Express on my
network. I used it to pull my email and it all looked good. Came in clean
and not as attachments.

2) I installed Windows Live Mail on my Vista machine, pulled my mail and
guess what, they are all attachments.

This must be a Vista problem with Winmail and WinLiveMail and maybe other
email programs? Any ideas where to go next?
__________________________________________________ _______________
"Bruce Hagen" wrote:


> This should apply to WinMail as well.
>
> Outlook Express message appears blank and has an ATT000XX.txt or an
> ATT000XX.htm attachment:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312351
>
> And from:
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/decode.htm
>
> Besides the problem described in this article with temporary files,
> Outlook Express may have a blank message if Internet Explorer is set at
> View, Encoding to Auto-Select. If so, disable the Auto-Select in Internet
> Explorer and choose instead Western European (ISO). If your program has an
> option to read HTML messages in Plain Text, the HTML version of the
> message may appear as an ATT0001.HTM attachment (the number may vary).
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP [Mail]
> Imperial Beach, CA
>
>
> "Dragontooth" <> wrote in message
> news:E01F2EA7-F012-41C2-897E-...
> > Read all messages in plain text was not checked.
> >
> > "Bruce Hagen" wrote:
> >
> >> Please do not start a new thread for an existing issue. Thank you.
> >>
> >> Tools | Options | Read. Uncheck: Read all messages in plain text.
> >> --
> >> Bruce Hagen
> >> MS-MVP [Mail]
> >> Imperial Beach, CA
> >>
> >>
> >> "Dragontooth" <> wrote in message
> >> news:0F2CB9E4-DE46-42B5-8EC3-...
> >> > Every one of my new or saved emails is showing up as an attachment?
> >> > The
> >> > To,
> >> > From, Subject and date are correct.
> >> >
> >> > They are all displayed correctly when I open the attachment.
> >> >
> >> > They all have this format: ATT0000XX.htm (XX.X KB)

Hi, Dragontooth.

Didn't you read this line from Bruce's post?

>> >> Please do not start a new thread for an existing issue. Thank you.

Since you missed that, maybe you missed other important parts of Bruce's
advice. :>(

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64

"Dragontooth" <> wrote in message
news:1FD677A9-63C6-42F8-8A51-...
>
>
> Bruce, thanks for your help. I accomplished the following:
>
> 1) I cleared the TEMP and TEMPORARY INTERNET folders.
>
> 2) I set the encoding to Western (ISO) in Internet Explorer.
>
> 3) I made sure that "Read All Messages In Plain Text" is NOT checked.
>
> I still have the problem. It must be related to Winmail or Vista on my PC
> since not only do the Inbox emails I receive show as attachments but,
> every
> saved email (Some years old) in ALL my folders also show as attachments
> when
> I try to open them. I cannot find any option in Winmail that might cause
> this other than the one I made sure was unchecked.
>
> I also did the following:
>
> 1) I just setup an old PC running Windows XP and Outlook Express on my
> network. I used it to pull my email and it all looked good. Came in clean
> and not as attachments.
>
> 2) I installed Windows Live Mail on my Vista machine, pulled my mail and
> guess what, they are all attachments.
>
> This must be a Vista problem with Winmail and WinLiveMail and maybe other
> email programs? Any ideas where to go next?
> __________________________________________________ _______________
> "Bruce Hagen" wrote:
>
>
>> This should apply to WinMail as well.
>>
>> Outlook Express message appears blank and has an ATT000XX.txt or an
>> ATT000XX.htm attachment:
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312351
>>
>> And from:
> http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/decode.htm
>>
>> Besides the problem described in this article with temporary files,
>> Outlook Express may have a blank message if Internet Explorer is set at
>> View, Encoding to Auto-Select. If so, disable the Auto-Select in Internet
>> Explorer and choose instead Western European (ISO). If your program has
>> an
>> option to read HTML messages in Plain Text, the HTML version of the
>> message may appear as an ATT0001.HTM attachment (the number may vary).
>> --
>> Bruce Hagen
>> MS-MVP [Mail]
>> Imperial Beach, CA
>>
>>
>> "Dragontooth" <> wrote in message
>> news:E01F2EA7-F012-41C2-897E-...
>> > Read all messages in plain text was not checked.
>> >
>> > "Bruce Hagen" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Please do not start a new thread for an existing issue. Thank you.
>> >>
>> >> Tools | Options | Read. Uncheck: Read all messages in plain text.
>> >> --
>> >> Bruce Hagen
>> >> MS-MVP [Mail]
>> >> Imperial Beach, CA
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Dragontooth" <> wrote in message
>> >> news:0F2CB9E4-DE46-42B5-8EC3-...
>> >> > Every one of my new or saved emails is showing up as an attachment?
>> >> > The
>> >> > To,
>> >> > From, Subject and date are correct.
>> >> >
>> >> > They are all displayed correctly when I open the attachment.
>> >> >
>> >> > They all have this format: ATT0000XX.htm (XX.X KB)