The only time that OE hides an attachment so that it gives no indication
that there is any attachment is if the sender used RTF format from
Outlook97/98/2000+. OE hides the Winmail.dat attachments because it
knows that it doesn't know how to handle them. But some web mail
services will can handle them.

If OE blocks an attachment due to security issues, then it will still
show that you have the attachment and its name. It just won't let you
open/save the attachment until you adjust your security settings.

The only other case would be if some software between you and the mail
server that is either stripping the attachments (such as an anti-virus
software scanning e-mail) or corrupting the message headers so that OE
can't properly interpret that there is an attachment (McAfee SpamKiller
is known to do this).

See the Problems and Complications section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...de.htm#problem


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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"John B" wrote in message
...
Through Apr 27 I could open attachments of all types in OE from Yahoo
email
subscribers to my bellsouth.net address. Starting Monday I could not,
and
this is true for both of my conputers as well as a next door friend
who has
bellsouth.net email service. The problem quickly isolates to OE (even
though
it involves at least 3 different computers and two different bellsouth
addresses). The reason is because I can get the attachments and open
them
when I go to the bellsouth web-based email site, but when I access the
emails
with OE, there is not even an indication that an attachment was
included. So
far, the attachments that failed were .doc, .pdf, and .jpg.
There is a twist in this and that is that I can send and receive
emails
with attachments to my self OK
I unchecked the "Do not allow attachments ...." block in my Security
settings, and that had no effect. I thought maybe an automatic
upgrade may
have caused the problem, but then I tried the OE software on my laptop
which
had not been turned on since before Apr 27, and had the same problem.
I called yahoo tech support and they said it had to be my problem. I
called bellsouth tech support and they it was my problem also.
Any ideas would be appreciated
--
John B