10.7.2000
Coming from the "Attachment Detachment" department, Lockergnomie Bob Coleman can make lemonade out of lemons. "We all get e-mail messages with attachments that do not decode properly. Next time, before deleting it and asking for a new copy, just save the message out as text and open it in a program like WinZip. It has the capability to decode both MIME and uuencoded messages." So very true! Should a certain recipient always experience these kinds of headaches, perhaps you should switch encoding algorhythms before blasting off the next attachment. In Outlook Express, select 'Options' under the 'Tools' menu, flip to the 'Send' tab, then press the 'Plain Text Settings' button. For your message format, you can choose a MIME derivation or Uuencode. You'll find that older clients handle uuencoded attachments much better. At least, that's the way it was before I started using Outlook.