[pmmail-list] nasty bug in pmmail for OS/2

[Maurice Guéron]

Reinhard, Thanks for your prompt response. Have you run into this problem? It's hard to pin-point the culprit in cases like this. Does the same problem occur in  mail exchange between windows computers? Do you know how to "switch off inline display of attachments"? In what Windows program(s) should this be done? And on the OS/2 side, should something be planned for future versions (!) of this great pmmail?
TIA
mg

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:32:23 +0100 (MEZ), Reinhard Forster wrote:

]On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:16:42 +0200 (CEST), Maurice Guéron wrote:
]
]> I found this bug which has caused suffering around here. Suppose I 
]> send a toto.doc file as an attachment. If I send it to another 
]> OS/2 computer using pmmail, he gets everything ok. But if I send 
]> it to a windows machine, using for instance thunderbird or outlook 
]> express, that person opens the message and finds the attached file 
]> in the message itself rather than as an attachment! 
]
]Tell the window people to switch off inline display of attachments. Windows
]seems to grab the doc extension to do strange things with.
]
]If your attachments arrive well on OS/2 machines, it means that the email
]itself is set up properly. PMMail (or OS/2) should not be blamed for
]ill-behaving "operating systems"
]
]
]Ade!
]
]Reinhard
]
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