Assuming your friend is using Outlook Express have him go to Tools,
Accounts, Mail, Properties, Advanced and uncheck the Break apart option
to stop that in the future.

As for the messages that you have, if they are all there, you can
recover the attachment. Highlight all the parts (hold Ctrl key while
clicking each part, or use shift-click for a range), then select Message
(OE5+) then Combine and Decode and follow the steps. You will end up
with a message window with the decoded attachment file that you can then
save, and use as desired (File, Save Attachment).

If using OE5 and above, turn off the Preview Pane (View, Layout) to
avoid the delays with OE searching for hyperlinks. You can add a button
to the tool bar for this.

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


"cw" wrote in message
...
A friend is sending me a .wav file as an attachement, however the email
shows
up in my inbox as a number of separate emails filled with a solid
block of
random characters.

I suspect there is something going on with my friend's outlook as I
can send
.wav attachemnts to other people without problem.

Any explanation as to why this occurs and how to fix it?

Thanks,
chris