I understund that. But sadly that aint our problem. In these cases attachments are
readable but message body text isn't. Funny thing in this problem is that the special
characters in message subject / body remains readable when message does not contain
any attachment. So i think that something about in attachments (encoding, whatever?)
is screwing my text.
If you are IMail user, try this.
Send your self one message without attachment (using imail web interface v6.x) and put
in message body some wierd characters like shown above and send it.
Then do it again and put anything to attachmemt and send it.
Is those characters anymore readable?
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Jan Dique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:39:35 -0500
>This has more to do with the nature of email, the internet and compatible
>font characters than Imail per se. We had the same problem where I worked
>before within our French user base. "Raw" files traveling the internet will
>be reduced to the lowest common denominator (text to ASCII I believe,
>unless encoded into html that your email client can understand).
>
>We fixed the problem by ensuring that all attachments were compressed into
>an archive of some sort before transmission. .zip or stuffed or something.
>This seemed to keep the character set intact within attachments.
>
>Best of Luck,
>
>Jan Dique
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.fifty-plus.net
>
>At 12:57 PM 1/27/00 , you wrote:
>>I've asked about this same problem recently and got no result. Even
>>IPSwitch KB has no help for this problem.
>>
>>Problem is as follows:
>>
>>When I send a message witch has an attachment (att type doesn't matter)
>>and message body contains ANY!!(?) special characters.
>>All special characters has been converted to something else in repicient end.
>>
>>Could someone test also this problem. This problem occurs in our mail
>>(imail 6.0) and also in Ron's mail system (mail.hksi.net) witch has Imail
>>6.02. One result of the test can be found in that place. Message subject:
>>attachments with scandinavian characters
>>page 2 in Main mailbox
>>
>>Test using characters like these ������������������
>>This problem also occurs when sending messages like this to Userid ->
>>Userid (local mail) without going thru any other gateway software than
>>ipswitch.
>>
>>This is very fustrating for our users 'cause we use lots of special
>>characters in our language and when message contains an attachment it
>>isn't anymore readable.
>>
>>Help! .. please
>>
>>--
>>--------------------------------------------------------------
>>Walter Saarimaa
>>PC-Support Engineer
>>Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute
>>
>>[Failure is not an option... it comes bundled with Windows]
>>--------------------------------------------------------------
>>If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
>>--------------------------------------------------------------
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