William; I'm wondering if the problem is partly due to the name of the file (newsletter.pdf.sit) having 2 periods in it? Although not often a major problem, this is a bad naming policy since it has the potential to confuse the computer about what the file name suffix is. I know that you have no control over the name given to the attachment, but it might be the cause of the problem.
I have a few files with those sort of names on my mac and they are not a problem generally (and I must say that they are all the result of me Stuffing files and not bothering to manually strip out the original suffix), but it occurs to me that if a file has an ambiguous name then sending it from one machine to another via a third machine in the middle (ie. emailing it) provides plenty of opportunity to introduce confusion. You say that PM 4.x and below handled these files okay, so it sounds like PM has lost some of its tolerance for files with double suffixes. It is evidently seeing the first suffix, assigning that file type, and leaving it at that, and obviously from Acrobat or Preview's point of view the file *is* corrupt, because it's in reality a Stuffit file, not a PDF at all. So the fault, if it can be called that, is twofold; the sender of your newsletter should really be sending out better named files (removing the .pdf from the compressed file name) and PM should be able to process files with double suffixes correctly (to allow for people sending badly named files). I'm also surprised that Stuffit doesn't give an option to remove the file suffix from the archive name when compressing it, like it does if you BinHex a file (when it can auto-remove the .sit ready to be replaced by the .hxq suffix). Hope this helps; Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.3.2 :: PM 5.0 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from William Lisowski on 14/7/04 at 12:44 am >I believe that the problem is that the message I receive is MIME- >formatted and the attachment is actually compressed with StuffIt, but >something is preventing PowerMail from recognizing that. Messages >received from this source prior to my switching to PowerMail 5 betas >shows an attachment named newsletter.pdf.sit, but those received after >the switch just show newsletter.pdf.
