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Friday, July 02, 2004

Outlook cannot receive attachments

Outlook 2002 (XP) Can't Receive My Attachments (Mac Eudora):
"Document ID: 2453HQ

ISSUE:
I'm using Macintosh Eudora. When I send attachments to users of Microsoft Outlook 2002 (Office XP), they don't receive the attachments OR don't get a paper clip icon to open the attachment properly.

SOLUTION:
This is a known bug in Microsoft Outlook 2002 (Office XP) that prevents them from receiving attachments from non-Microsoft products (Microsoft bug fix number OfficeQFE:4781). As of this writing, Microsoft has planned an update to fix the Outlook issue.
Until Microsoft fixes the issue, Eudora users have reported success with the following work-around. In your Mac Eudora, open a new message, then copy and paste the following text into that message-




The text will highlight in blue as a URL. Double click on it. In the new window that appears, change the following text-

from - %r: < %p>%p

to - %

Click Set Setting.

That should do it. Now Eudora will send out a mangled 'Content-ID' header to trick Outlook 2002 (Office XP) into correctly interpreting the attachment."


F*ck outlook. "Prevents Outlook 2002 from receiving attachments from non-Microsoft products". Thanks to the D.O.J., there won't be these sorts of problems in the future. Oh, wait, not really. Yeesh.

But, useful info to stow away nonetheless.

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