Hi Ken, @5-Jan-2004, 17:38 -0600 (05-Jan 23:38 UK time) ken green [K] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Marck:
K> Not sure if this helps, but if I invoke Message Dispatcher and K> re-download the message in question, the Word doc attachment K> shows up. *AND* the previous version of message that wasn't K> showing the attachment now *does* show the attachment. This is file association gone sour down to silly "content type" settings. >> BTW the "Content-Type: application/msword;", although reasonable to >> a degree, is bad - it's completely windows/mac-centric and >> non-portable. K> Ummm... OK... So it's "bad" - who/what is setting the K> content-type? The original sender. ISTM that MS is messing more and more with MIME types and they really shouldn't. It confuses the heck out of some hapless recipients down the line. Like you, for instance. K> I thought this was MIME stuff set at the server level? (this is K> beyond my expertise, so excuse my ignorance on the subject) The server usually only sets "Received" headers. Sometimes they add missing "Message-Id" headers and Spam processing or routing headers. Stuff like that. Any server that message with content types should not be doing so. -- Cheers -- .\\arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator TB! v2.03 Beta/25 on Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 '
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