I have successfully sent a zip attatchment to my colleague who uses
Eudora, so I am reassured by that. I'm still very keen to get to the
bottom of all that rtf appearing inline when it shouldn't in messages
sent from Mozilla.
Russell wrote:
> Eric wrote:
>
> > this doesn't help you, but Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express do it
> > the same way.
>
> I haven't found this to be the case - we just tried sending an rtf
> attatched from outlook express to outlook express & it dosen't display
> the raw version of the file in the email text - the attatchment just
> appears as an icon for people to save the file or open it in an
> appropriate viewer. There is no inline display of the attatched RTF file
> on our systems.
>
> > I guess that the idea is that if the mailer is able to handle a certain
> > file, it will display it.
>
> In my case the mailer is not able to display the file - it displays the
> .rtf file inline at the bottom of the message as if it were a text file
> (ie. illegibly with thousands of \'s etc - the raw rtf formatting)
>
> Here's an extract:
>
> {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0
> Arial;}}
> \viewkind4\uc1\pard\ul\f0\fs40 VJamm New Development Ideas April
> 2002\ulnone\fs20\par
> \par
> I think the top 3 ideas I would like are:\par
> \par
> \ul\b\fs24 1. IO and loop\ulnone\b0\fs20\par
>
> I just tried attatching a zip file, and the problem dosen't occur in my
> Mozilla.
>
> I will try sending a zip attatchment to my colleague who uses eudora - I
> was particuarly worried that he was not able to get my RTF attatchment
> in useable form at all.
>
> Russell
>
>
>
> > Eric
> >
> > Russell wrote:
> >
> >> I have the same problem - it is causing me embarrasment also.
> >>
> >> Can anyone comment on this issue?
> >> Why do attatchments appear below a horizontal rule in the email?
> >> It confuses a lot of people that we send emails to.
> >>
> >> As an even more serious issue related to this, a colleague of myne who
> >> uses Eudora Mail has reported that they were not able to get my
> >> attatchment of an RTF at all - they only had the rtf written out at
> >> the bottom of the mail.
> >>
> >> many thanks - long live Mozilla
> >>
> >> Russell
> >>
> >>
> >> Gianluigi Ferrari wrote:
> >>
> >>> Help! Help!
> >>>
> >>> I recently installed SUSE Linux 7.3 on my computer. I am running
> >>> Mozilla for my e-mail, and everything works fine. The only problem I
> >>> have is connected to the attachments. When I send out any file (for
> >>> example a postscript), it is attached as an icon at the top of the
> >>> e-mail (as I want), but it is also attached as a plain text at the
> >>> bottom of the e-mail. I have not been able, up to now, to find the
> >>> right way to set it. Please help me out!!! People are getting nervous
> >>> on my e-mails....
> >>>
> >>> Gian
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
