[pmmail-list] Warning: PMmail 2000 can corrupt attachments when "detaching"

[L.Willms]

On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 16:53:45 -0400, Richard Beeson wrote:

> I was testing the Thunderbird email client, and sent myself an email 
with a PDF attachment. PMMail corrupted the attachment name, turning it 
into 
> "Unamed_Attachment.ATT", and wouldn't open it in Adobe Acrobat. 

  It could be that Thunderbird sent the file as the first and only 
bodypart, while PMMail expects a first body part as text, and binary 
files as an attachment. 

> The other thing that happens is that PMMail doesn't recognize files 
with the .JPE extension. This is another form of Jpeg file that is sent 
as embedded graphics 
> by a lot of other users. 

  Embedded graphics? That sounds like a HTML body part with embedded 
graphics which are referenced within the eMail body via a "CID" (i.e. 
Content ID). Have a loook at the eMail by opening it, and looking via 
the "Window" menu (at least thats how it is called in PMMail for OS/2) 
for the "View full message"; this then shows the full undecoded message. 

  PMMail is not able to deal with this kind of internal referencing; 
this is one of the MIME-features which is missing from PMMail (the whole 
MIME-engine in PMMail needs a complete overhaul). 


Yours, 
Lüko Willms
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Frankfurt/Main