Robert
You are right - the only choices are plain text or rtf.
When rtf is chosen the email is written in html.

A simple message telling me:
        Dad, mine says
        Version 2.1 (752/752.2)
        Alex
when checked in the Blah Blah of Eudora shows:
<x-html><!x-stuff-for-pete base="" src="" id="0" charset=""><HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dad, mine says <DIV>Version 2.1 (752/752.2)</DIV><DIV>Alex<BR><DIV><DIV>On 19/01/2007, at 6:48 PM, Mervyn &amp; Giuliana Bond wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Alex</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Would you please open your Mail application and then check About Mail to find your version.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Please email me the result.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dad</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see."</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#5C0306"><B style="color: rgb(92, 3, 6); font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(92, 3, 6); font-weight: bold; ">Alex Bond</SPAN></B></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#5C0306"><B style="color: rgb(92, 3, 6); font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(92, 3, 6); font-weight: bold; ">Stormlight Publishing</SPAN></B></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#4656E0"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(70, 86, 224); font-size: 11px; ">images of western australia</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV>www.alexbond.com.au</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A></DIV><DIV>Ph 08 93566695</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>
</x-html>

What a waste of band space. Seven of the lines of html deal with a very simple three line signature. There is a story about Mail and html at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/2.0/en/ml985.html

Merv

At 10:49 AM +0800 18/1/07, Robert Howells wrote:
On 18/01/2007, at 9:55 AM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:

I think I have resolved the 'Attachments go astray' mystery.
Checking in the Help of Eudora I found the following entry:
        What do the Parts and Cache folder in my Eudora Folder do?
        Document ID: 1574HQ

The Parts folder is like the attachments folder, except that it's used for images sent along with HTML images. The Cache folder is like a browser's cache folder; it's used for local copies of images fetched from the net via
        http.
When I turned on the Blah Blah in Eudora's menu after opening one of my son's emails with an attachment I found a block of html, and the attachment had gone to the Parts folder. My son later sent me an email in plain text with an attachment and it went to my Attachment folder. In both cases Eudora is doign its job.
Is Mail, by default, set to compose in html?

Mail version 2.1

Mail preferences - composing
has the message format choice of    " Plain Text "    or    "Rich Text "

It's the only choice I can see .. perhaps he has it set at    " Rich Text "

Bob


Merv


At 4:46 PM +0800 15/1/07, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:
Neil
Placement of the attachment is an interesting one. In Eudora when I add an attachment an icon appears in the Header just below Bcc. My son said he just clicks anywhere in the body of the email, above or below the signature, and says 'attach'. Yes, the images do come up in the email I receive as well as getting the feral files. Other than Eudora I have only used web site mail, and those clients all had a specific spot - usually at the bottom - for identifying the file name being attached. I'm surprised Mail hasn't something similar, or perhaps it has, and he has overlooked it.
Merv

At 4:23 PM +0900 15/1/07, Neil Houghton wrote:
Hi Merv,

I don't use Mail or Eudora myself, so I may be way off the mark, but I
wonder if the info:
 Content-Disposition: inline;
Is the clue. Is he perhaps pasting/inserting the images into the body of the
message rather than sending them just as attachments. I know with entourage
sometimes I just see images as attachments to messages whereas other times
they appear in the body of the email (but also show as attachments) - I've
always assumed that the difference was whether the sender inserted or
attached the image. Maybe Eudora files straight attachments in the specified
Attachments folder but files inserted attachments into the Parts Folder in
the Eudora Folder. Should be easy enough to check by getting him to send
both types.

Good luck.

Neil
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on 15/1/07 4:54 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 At 8:08 AM +0800 15/1/07, Robert Howells wrote:
 On 15/01/2007, at 7:53 AM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:

One of my sons is using an iMac with OS 10.4.8 and has Mail has his client.
 I use Eudora as my mail client.
 When he sends me an email with an attachment the attachment goes to
 the Parts Folder in the Eudora Folder.  Clearly  Eudora considers
 the attachment as an item of a different type.

 As other people sending me attachments result in their attachment
 going to my specified Attachments folder I am wondering what
 setting my son might be using in Mail that causes Eudora to place
 it in the Parts Folder.

 I am not familiar with Mail, but perhaps someone who is might be
 able to make a suggestion.

 Thank you.
 Merv


 There does not appear to be any preference in Mail that would affect
 an attachment ,
 so I wonder ......  does your son have files with names that
 include or exclude the
 file extension name..    eg       .jpg   .doc   .xls

 and do the other attachments include or exclude the file extansion  ?

 Bob


 The photos he sends have been processed in Photoshop (CS) and the
 typical accompanying info is:

 Content-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 Content-Type: image/jpeg;
 x-mac-type=4A504547;
 x-unix-mode=0644;
 x-mac-creator=3842494D;
 name=MumKaye.jpg
 Content-Disposition: inline;
 filename=MumKaye.jpg
 The file located in Eudora Parts folder is, in this instance, named
 MumKaye.jpg
I am not aware of any inclusions or exclusions being applied. Where
 would he do that?

 In all other cases (other senders) the extension is shown.
 Merv


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