My Reply follows quote. On 19/11/2002 13:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Rising) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Emailer Listserv) >Hey folks! > >When I send ms word attachments from emailer to yahoo mail accounts, the >folks using ms windows cannot seem to download them properly. > >The problem is that they are listed as having >File type: application/octet-stream >instead of what should come up >File type: application/msword > >Has anyone seen this, and does anyone have a convenient workaround? I've >found an inconvenient workaround: > >send the mail to myself from emailer >redirect the mail using Mail (under Mac OS X 10.2.2) > >This makes the file type what it should be. > >If I send the file out of Mail directly, yahoo insists that the file is >Filetype: application/applefile > >Thanks for any hints. --------- My "work-around" is to put files into a folder first, then send folder and all. Seems to have a higher percentage of successful transmissions than other means I have tried.
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