You are right, its not the extension. I tried renaming my *.RTF 
testfile to *.XYZ, and it did not matter.

I did a little more "research" with the email clients at hand: 
Warpzilla 0.9.7, Outlook Express 6, Eudora 5.1 and Lotus Notes 4.57h 
for OS/2 (with the Internet mail client delivered from IBM with Warp 
4).

Result when sending message with attachment with RTF content from 
Warpzilla:

1. Eudora does not see the attachment at all, displays it inline
2. Outlook displays the content inline and indicates attachment
3. Warpzilla displays the content inline and indicates attachment
4. Lotus Notes displays only as attachment

As you can see, only Lotus Notes displays this as expected. I did the 
same test when sending from Outlook, and then all 4 clients indicates 
attachment as expected, none of them displays the content inline.

It seems to me we have one problem with Eudora and one with Warpzilla.
Eudora is not able to detect or indicate that the message contains an 
attachment at all, while Warpzilla "packs" the message in a way that 
makes all receiving clients (including Warpzilla) display the content 
inline, which is quite meaningless in this case.

I have not been able to find this as a registered bug, anyone else?

regards,
Jan


On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 16:51:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henry Sobotka) wrote:

> If you're sending the RTF file as an attachment and the recipient's
> email program treats it as inline text, the problem's at their end. It's
> not the extension either. I've gotten the same complaints with documents
> saved as Word 6 by higher versions, which results in an RTF file with a
> ..doc extension.
> 
> h~
> 
> Jan Eri wrote:
> > 
> > and I should probably have mentioned that as far as I know this
> > behaviour has been there all the time, it's not new to 0.9.7 or any
> > recent version.
> > 
> > Jan
> > 
> > On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 09:38:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Eri)
> > wrote:
> > > I have experienced quite a few times when sending a RTF wordprocessor
> > > file as attachment with Warpzilla that the recipient complains that
> > > his mailer does not receive this as an attachment, but displays the
> > > RTF codes directly in the message instead. I usually end up zipping
> > > the RTF file and sending it again, and then it works well (or sending
> > > it with another program).
> > >
> > > This happens when sending with 0.9.7 and with recent versions of
> > > Eudora and Outlook in the receiving end.
> > >
> > > Is this a known problem? Due to the content or the extension?
> > > Anything I can do as a workaround?
> > >
> > > thanks and regards,
> > > Jan
> > >
> > 
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