Ives, Thank you for the response!
Randy Armbrecht Global Web Solutions�, Inc. 804-346-5300 x102 877-800-GLOBAL (4562) x102 http://globalweb.net http://e-globalweb.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ives Stoddard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] MAC's and attachment issues > This may have to do with MIME settings. > > When sending mail from a Mac, often you will get two files: one the actual > file data, the other the resource fork. Macintosh files hold a bunch of > additional information about the file and it's held in what's called the > resource fork. This helps keep information about the file when it's moved > from one location to another, or from one Mac to another. However, when > sending a file to a PC, this information gets stripped into the seperate > resource fork file. If this didn't happen, a GIF file would have an > entirely different format which applications on a PC wouldn't be able to > process. > > Anyway, it's normal for this to happen, but you may want to check your MIME > settings if you don't want this to happen. > > -ives > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Randy Armbrecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 5:23 PM > Subject: [IMail Forum] MAC's and attachment issues > > > > Anyone else have issues with receivng messages with attachments (i.e.: > > jpeg's) from MAC users? We have always received them fine - with a > twist - > > that is we receive 2 files with same name attached - one is actual graphic > > file (i.e. 50K), other seems to be a data file (i.e. 2K) - never have a > > problem opening the graphic file... > > > > the only reason i'm asking is we have a new MAC customer (only have about > 30 > > total MAC customers as opposed to over a thousand PC users) and this one > > customer is simply bewildered at this as he has never experienced it > > before... > > > > Any thoughts? I'm loking thru SMTP/POP settings and do not see anything > at > > all.... > > > > > > Randy Armbrecht > > Global Web Solutions�, Inc. > > 804-346-5300 x102 > > 877-800-GLOBAL (4562) x102 > > http://globalweb.net > > http://e-globalweb.net > > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > to be removed from this list. > > > > An Archive of this list is available at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude and F-Prot AntiVirus] > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
