I've finally switched to Jag (can't believe it took me so long, but I'd somehow built it up in my mind as much more of a transition than it really was), and am having one problem. I just sent my first email to a Windoz recipient that included a v. 9 Word document as an attachment. I saved it as a Word document, included the .doc suffix, but the recipient said it came across as gibberish (it was a resume, and, come to think about it, maybe that was a comment on my background, not on the formatting...). Any ideas?It's probably both on the recipient's end, and a Word problem...
--W. David Stephenson
Word encodes Mac document files with a resource fork, even though nothing is in there and Word will open the file just happy without the resource fork being present.
If you sent it with Mail.app, the message went out as three attachments, one the text of the message, another the encoded resource fork for the Word file, the last the attached file itself. Some mail clients (notably Eudora <spit!>) will screw this up, and only see the resource fork attachment and try to call it the file itself.
(And no it isn't really the fault of Mail.app, it's that Mail.app actually *properly* encodes mime attachemnts as apparently very few other mail applications do, and they screw up. I've seen it happen here. I can read and open an attachemnt just fine with Mozilla or Mail.app but Eudora or WebMail screws it up. Other web-based email clients like Neomail or Horde see it properly.)
The solution is to stuff the MS files before sending them.
(many people swear by Eudora, but I find myself mostly swearing *at* it...)
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