I suggest playing with your Outlook settings instead of KMail. Outlook can
do things to attachments that make them usable by no other e-mail client
(even Outlook Express). I haven't fooled with it enough to know just what
you need to do, but I did have to change settings on how Outlook dealt with
attachments so one of my users could communicate with people mainly using
Eudora or Outlook Express.
The option to send messages in text only mainly refers to the ability of
the mailer to do messages as HTML instead of text, so fonts, underlining,
etc. can be included. There should be a separate setting for how
attachments are handled and encoded.
If you see your whole message appear as an attached file "winmail.dat"
you've done it wrong.
At 09:14 AM 8/15/01 -0700, Thomas A. Condon wrote:
>I'm running Outlook on Win2K at work, but SuSE 7.2 at home (with KDE and
>reading mail with KMail).
>
>As has happened before, I received the picture at home as text gibberish,
>and if I were to bother to re-read some manuals that I first ran into about
>20 years ago I'd remember how to decode that into a picture again.
>
>However, I've received pictures at home just fine from my father (Netscape
>Mail on a Win98 OS), and this encoded text from work when I was running
>WinNT, too. So it is something done on the sending end, I think. Is it
>because I send messages in "Text Only" mode? I've understood that that is
>more correct for email, because not all systems have attachment capability.
>If this is so, I'll need to remember how to decode it at the other end.
>
>But, perhaps someone on this list knows how to set KMail to do this
>automatically. How about it? Anyone up to that challenge?
>
>
>| Thomas A. Condon
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