Hi Now you mention it, yes, although very few of my correspondents have Hotmail addresses. I don't remember when it started, looking back I have a message on the 12th June 2011 with an attachment that was called <image 0011.jpg> and a message on the 13th June from the same person that had an attachment named after the subject heading, and all since then have followed that pattern. So what did I do on the evening of the 12th that changed things? I have no idea!
I have nothing to compare it with as I have never checked that account on any other email programme Cheers Graham >Hey all, > >I've been noticing that when I receive attachments from a correspondent >using Hotmail that PM fails to heed the attached filenames and instead >re-names the files equivalent to the message's Subject line. This is >irritating and irreversible. > >I'm not a MIME expert, but on quick glance, the sub-part headers look >reasonable; e.g.: > >--=_mintier-9426-1331185362-0001-2 >Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename="Changes to RMN Prototype.docx" >Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats- >officedocument.wordprocessingml.document; > name="Changes to RMN Prototype.docx" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > >UEsDBBQABgAIAAAAIQAGHS5yiAEAANkFAAATAAgCW0NvbnRlbnRfVHlwZXNdLnhtbCCiBAIooAAC >AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA >[...] > >The attachments are properly handled by Mail.app. But when I download >the message with PM, the attachment is not saved as indicated, but >rather named after the message subject (sans extension). This gets >worse of course when there are several attachments. > >I should perhaps do some testing with hotmail.com and try to narrow down >the circumstances. Has anyone else had a similar problem? > >cheers, > >-b > >-- >Ben Kennedy, chief magician >Zygoat Creative Technical Services >http://www.zygoat.ca > > >
