On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 00:59, Daniel Kerr wrote: [snip problem description]
It sounds like the remote mail client is sending a wrong MIME type such as application/octet-stream for the attachment. That may be causing your client to set the file type to ????/???? instead of mapping it to the correct type. > TO me it sounds like the resource fork or meta-data isn't being transferred > properly when it's being received into the email,..but I could be wrong! :o) Well, if mail is sent from a PC there is no resource fork to transfer, nor any Mac metadata. The Mac must figure out what the file type is based on the supplied MIME type, and alas many mail clients give bogus MIME types. This works because Outlook and Outlook Express for Windows ignore the MIME type and use the file extension, so people think their mail client works when it's actually broken ... and never fix it. *sigh*. > So I don't know if this makes sense to anyone, or anyone has come across > something similar,...but any help greatfuly appreciated and accepted! In my experience there's just not much to be done about it. Too much broken mail software out there, and some folks (like Microsoft) don't seem to be in a hurry to fix theirs, either. -- Craig Ringer
