Aaaeeeeeii!
Please do not consider dumping Emailer for OE unless you really need some
of the features of it. Really, Emailer is a best-of-kind program, and
it's functionality four years after it's last update is still amazing to
me.
Try setting your encoding to AppleDouble and see if you have the same
problem. I did that and it seemed to fix the probs my Windoze friends had.
You wrote:
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Krinock)
>Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Also, be careful that the "off" and "no encoding" are properly set in each
>message you send. I do not know of any way to turn them off for good. I
>believe they turn on by default with each new message.
>
>However, more to the point, if your mail server is a standard SMTP/POP3
>server (which it probably is unless you are on AOL), why don't you switch to
>using Outlook Express? It's a free download from Microsoft. I used Claris
>Em@iler for several years. Em@ailer was a great program, but this year we
>got DSL, so I'm closing my AOL mailbox and have switched to Outlook Express
>5.0. I have read that Outlook Express was written by the same people who
>wrote Claris Em@iler. Indeed, it does have the same feel, except about 3
>years better! It is a beautiful Mac program -- almost always defaults to
>just what I want it to do, never crashes, and you can AppleScript it to do
>just about anything. And, (confirming that it was probably written by the
>Claris folks) it is able to import all your Claris Em@iler messages and
>address book. Very nice!
>
>P.S. Outlook Express does need OS 8.1 or above, but System 7 was such a
>dog, I hope that OS 8 will run on your 280.
>
>
>on 01/03/21 15:51, Genki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>> I recently shifted fulltime to Claris E-Mailer 2.0
>>> with my Duo 280 and need some help from other Listers
>>> who are more familiar with the application. My
>>> problem arises when on-forwarding GIF and JPG files
>>> received from others. Some of the recipients (WinTel
>>> users) report their inability to open the files. One
>>> reports that his machine told him he needed hqx to
>>> open it. I suspect the problem lies in the E-Mailer
>>> setup I am using but do not know the proper
>>> configuration. For the record, I am currently
>>> operating with compression 'off" and "no encoding."
>>
>> I think the reason your outgoing file got coded into hqx because your
server
>> requires it. By default, all outgoing files are encoded because Internet
>> doesn't handle the files the same way the local computer would. You might
>> want to recheck the setting to see if compression is off. Also by default,
>> Emailer encodes file by binhex so try changing the setting to something
more
>> universal like uucode since nearly all email program can handle uucode.
AOL
>> can't handle multiple attachment so send the file as one ZIP file.
>>
***
Ajax
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