On Mar 5, 2004, at 11:05 AM, Sean Lewis (MBD) wrote:
Although the inception of a "windows friendly" button in the Panther xmailer
interface does insinuate that there has been a problem with early releases.
So... why no fix for Jaguar users?
Because <gasp> the problem is that Apple actually followed the RFC's regarding attachments in e-mail and Microsoft Word *insists* on attaching a resource fork to Word files.
What Mail does is then send the message as *three* attachments: The body of the message, as a text attachment, the data fork and the resource fork, which segment has the same name as the data fork. This is correct, as per the governing RFC's. (I forget which ones)
Mail clients are supposed to manage these attachments, but many (not all) see two attachments with the same name, and simply take the last one (or first one, I forget which it is) which is the resource fork, which results in a "messed up" attachment. We saw this here with our web clients. We used two different ones, one showed both attachments, one showed only one, the wrong one. Look at the raw source of one of the problematic e-mails some time.
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Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group
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