Hello Mike, On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:38:38 -0400 GMT (20/07/03, 23:38 +0700 GMT), Mike S. wrote:
>> Open one of these files (one without attachment, for example) and >> open it in a text editor. You should see all the headers (Starting >> with From:), and then there should be one blank line, and then >> there should be the text of the message. > Nope, no luck. If I change a .msg file to .txt and open it that way, > there's no from:/to: header, just a bunch of coding, then the > message text. Then you have proven it: they are not .msg files, but Outlook abuses the the file extension for something proprietary. Marck already said as much. > I take it from this footer on your message that you're running a > 1.63 beta version of The Bat? I've got version 1.62r running on > Windows98... the .msg files are from Outlook 2000 SP-3. Should I try > the beta version and see if it fixes the problem? No - there is nothing to fix in TB. You should try and ask the makers of Outlook to fix it their end. > Where can I get it, and is it at least halfway reliable, or is it > full of bugs? The current beta is full of bugs. It is work-in-progress, you see. That's why they call it "beta". But that has nothing to do with opening of .msg files; TB has always done that correctly. ;-) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. "The company made me a scapegoat, just like my three previous employers." Message reply created with The Bat! 1.63 Beta/5 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
