On Saturday, August 31, 2002 at 7:40:52 PM Mark Bernard wrote: >> I recently changed over to TB! from PMMail2000, which I'd been using >> for years. A fair percentage of the attachments I recieve are now >> (since switching to TB!) corrupted. > >> I "think" that the Err#68 is from TB!'s image viewer.
I agree, Mark. And like Mark, I experience corruption with ALL attachment types, not just JPEG images. .doc files, .ppt files, .zip files, you name it, it has come through corrupted at one time or another. And also like Mark, saving a "corrupted" JPEG image to disc will _partially_ display in an external viewer, like ACDSee. These attachments are being sent by Windows users, typically using Outlook, Outlook Express or the mail portion of Netscape. On Saturday, August 31, 2002 at 7:52:06 PM Dierk Haasis wrote: > I wonder why you should be the only one affected. The only time I got > a corrupted attachment it was actually "corrupted" in that the file > wasn't named correctly - it came from a Mac and therefore lacked the > essential extension for Windows to identify it. > > And the few times I remember a similar subject came up on this list it > always came down to wrong extensions, malformed code, corruption > through bad connections or servers. Mark is definitely not the only to experience it, and unfortunately, the corruption is not occuring for any of the reasons you mention, Dierk. If you read my original messages to the list, you'll see that forwarding a message that is "corrupt" in TB! to somebody who does not use TB!, the attachment arrives FINE. If the attachment really was corrupt, or maligned during network transfer, forwarding the message to a non-TB! user would also have problems, which they DO NOT. This indicates that the message was received correctly by TB!, and that it is stored in TB!'s interal mailboxes fine. It appears it could be a problem with the BASE64 decoding of MIME attachments, since the corruption only manifests itself when you try to "extract" an attachment with TB! (by using the internal viewer or by choosing "Save" on the attachment). Eddy ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
