Outlook Banter - View Single Post - Attached .pdf end up as embedded garbage in email body

**Brian Tillman** · February 22nd 06, 08:57 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook

wrote:

Here is a sample
of what we are experiencing. ( i have replaced personel information
with x's)

I don't see anything wrong with the message. The MIME headers look OK.
What bothers me is you see them at all. If they're correctly formed, they
should be hidden from the viewer. Something is getting in the way of the
reipient's client and confusing it about what's in your message.

Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated. In one scenario
we even have 2 people in the same office that receive this email and
for one it comes in normal with the pdf attached and the other gets
the garbage above.

The "garbage" is what ALL attachments look like because, you see, there
really is no such thing as an attachment. Yor mail client is faking you out
by converting your binary file to ASCII text since mail really can't deal
with binary data. The data is converted and then embedded in the body of
the mail. However, the receiving client also knows about the encoding and
disassembles the incoming data into its various parts, constructing a copy
of the file you attached when the receiver opens the message. That is, if
everything goes as planned. The only thing I can really see that may be
affecting things is this:

X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.6 required=5.0
tests=BAYES_60,DATE_IN_PAST_12_24,
INVALID_DATE,NO_REAL_NAME,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no version=3.0.3

If those are truly wrapped that way, it could be confusing the receiving
mail client. If, however, the wrapping is an artifact of your posting, then
I can't see why this would be happening to you.
--
Brian Tillman