Actually, it's a propagation problem. Some mail systems don't like
to handle multiple attachments, and enclosed them in a Zip file. Usually
this works fine. Unfortunately, there's something about the
way multiple file attachments are encoded when passing through this
reflector that AOL doesn't seem to understand, so what they zip up for me is
the raw MIME-encoded attachments, without reconverting them to their
original formats and filenames.
Single files pass through OK. Therefore, since I'm apparently not
the only person who encountered this, may I suggest either sending single
files per message, or zipping them into a single file prior to
transmission.
Hi John
AOL can often be a pain on this and did it to me too but, with Winzip
anyway, the files can still be read.
When I opened the original zip file that AOL had wrapped them in there were
the two mim files you mentioned.
Winzip sees these as compressed files too so double clicking either
from within Winzip, I didn't bother to extract them first, starts up another
Winzip session which opens up the selected file to reveal the jpg inside, which
can then also be opened from within the archive.
Messy yes, but it did work ok.
However, I would agree that creating a single zip file before
transmission is the easiest way to avoid problems.
regards
Nigel
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