Because Outlook is garbage?!?! :) Anyway, what program are you using on the Treo to send the message with the attachment??
--- Mike ...... Original Message ....... On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:49:06 -0700 George Kontos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I sent a Treo picture file to a different friend who works at a >different company and he could not open the file with his Outlook 2003 >either. He says he got the following error message: > >Corrupted with "15 extraneous bytes" before the marker 0Xb. > >Why would Outlook have trouble receiving image files, but any other >email software works fine??? > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "George Kontos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Treo List Yahoo" <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 8:22 PM >Subject: [Treo] Outlook 2003 won't open email attachments sent from Treo >700p > > >> If I create a little video (or a JPEG) on my Treo and send it via >> email >> from the Treo to my wife's work account (Outlook 2003), the files >> won't >> open. (Error messages are "File is not a movie" for the Quicktime >> vid, >> and "No preview available' for the JPEG.) >> >> If I send those same files from the Treo to anyone else, they can be >> viewed with no problem, so it seems that my wife's Outlook (or >> corporate >> network server?) is somehow corrupting the files. >> >> This only happens with files *created* on the Treo. If I use the Treo >> to send images that were created with a different digital camera, she >> can successfully view those. >> >> I did another test. I sent a Treo-created video and jpeg from my Treo >> to my home PC. They open fine for me there. So then I forwarded >> those >> same files from my home PC to the wife's Outlook account. They open >> fine! So, going through a "middleman" the files get through okay, but >> if they go directly from Treo to Outlook, they get corrupted. >> >> I hope I explained that clearly. Any idea what might be happening? >> >> George
