Re: Problems with .doc files and emails

On 16/03/2015 12:13, Dave Higton wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:18:40 +0000 David Ruck wrote:
>
>> On 16/03/2015 11:01, Philip Draper wrote:
>>> I'm having problems with sending Word (.doc) files attached to emails.
>>>
>>> Files are generated on a PC (using Libre Office but I convert them to
>>> .doc) and transferred to my ARMiniX with LanMan98. They appear in the
>>> attachments box as /doc, which is as it should be, I think.
>>>
>>> Recipients complain that they cannot open the atachments. Resending
>>> them converted to pdf files works, as does sending them direct from
>>> the PC using Thunderbird.
>>
>> Check you have an entry for .doc in your MIMEMAP file, or they will
>> probably have a name of file.doc,ae6 or some such.
>
> Not to mention a MIME type that the receiving end might not understand.

If sending to a PC, it uses the file extension in the message, and 
nothing else. Window's expects everything else to play to its tune.

> Here's a general question: can MPro send attachments such that the file
> name on arrival is different from the file name in MPro's attachments
> window prior to sending?

Messenger shows the RISC OS name. To see what the other end will see, 
open the raw copy of the sent message, and look for the filename at the 
beginning of the MIME section header for the attachment.

Cheers
-- 
David J. Ruck
email: druck@...
phone: +44(0)7974 108301

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