On Tuesday 15 August 2006 12:57 am, Shigeki Yanagisawa wrote:
> After OO 2.0 is installed, when I send a WORD or EXCEL file with
> Thunderbird version 1.5.0.5 (20060719), my colleague can't open it
> easily by Outlook Express because the file name is displayed as
> ATT..... .DAT, not .doc or .xls.
>
> Before OO installation, this had not happened.
>
> In the mail source, where it used be written as
> "application/msword", it is now written as
> "application/octet-stream".
>
> There is no problem with text files and PDF files, etc.
>
> Please help!
This sounds like a file association problem that no one seems to
have considered before. You probably have set OOo 2.0 as the default
program to open Word or Excel files. Thunderbird then attaches Word
and Excel files with application/octet-stream because MS Word or
Excel are not the default programs for these files. The receiver's
Outlook Express does not know you have sent an MS Office file because
the headers do not tell it so.
One question. When you look at the email you sent, does it have
the correct suffix? (.doc or .xls) If your attachment ends with .DAT,
you have a problem with how you have set Thunderbird up. If what you
sent has a suffix of .doc or xls, then the problem is with Outlook
Express. It is not set up to automatically associate .doc or .xls
attachments as MS Office formats.
Dan
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