Attachment sign is there but no attachment

Hi, some emails which I receive, I can see the attachment sign (paper clip)
but there is actually no option to open or save the attachment. Then there
are some emails which do have attachments but even paper clip sign doesn't
come. Both the above problems happen to only a fraction of emails (less than
5%).

For example, today I received a mail which does have an attachment (as
confirmed by other recepients), but WLM doesn't show attachment sign. When I
looked at properties and message source, it clearly shows from the size and
tags that the attachment is there. There are some tags seems to be introduced
by sender's firewall. Following tags are there:

---------------------------
Accept-Language: en-US
Content-Language: en-CA
X-MS-Has-Attach: yes
...............
................

X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1247433765
X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at .......
X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: -1001.00
X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=-1001.00 using global scores of
TAG_LEVEL=3.5 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=9.0
........................
........................

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

 

Thanks for your advice. Is there any way to extract attachments from such
emails which I mentioned in my previous post? In old times, there used to be
uudecode, do u know any other such free tool?

 

Ron

In OE as an example I get that when someone posts in HTML and I am viewing in Plain
Text.Like you I see this only about the same percentage as you. Nothing wrong if
that is the case there with you which most probably is.

 

One cannot restrict what format other people use. That is not possible nor
it is reasonable.
Try this :
Tools > Options >Read. Un-check " read all messages in plain text " > OK
t-4-2

 

Yes, I recently had to use such a third party decoder for the winmail.dat
attachment created by Outlook. See WMDecode:
http://www.reg.net/product.asp?ID=7394

 

If messages are sent using the Exchange family of mail programs
(includes Windows Messaging or Outlook97/98/2000+) and the option to use
Rich Text Format is selected, it puts the RTF message (and any attached
files) in an attachment called WINMAIL.DAT (application/ms-tnef). But
this attachment is useless to most other mail programs. In some mail
programs (e.g. Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail), the
attachment won't even be visible.

The Exchange user can turn off the RTF option for messages to selected
recipients. Note that if sending via an Exchange server, the Exchange
server administrator may be overriding the mail client settings. In
this case, the administrator will need to make changes on the server.
In some cases, the Exchange server actually removes the attachments to
some recipients.

For additional information, see the MS-TNEF WINMAIL.DAT Attachments
section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/decode.htm#ms-tnef
At the above link is information on several utilities that can be used
to recover the attachment if the sender can't or won't resend it in
plain text (or HTML) mode.

 

Do a search for posts by Michael Santovec for fentun ; )

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...3e/912898f9c9566add?q=author:santovec++fentun


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I found Winmail opener most suitable, thanks.

 

Your are welcome and thanks for posting back.