When I open some attachments, (message5 txt.) appears. Notepad then opens
and all I see is every person and path the message has gone through and then
about a million letters and characters. I have Windows XP, Notepad, Wordpad,
but I don't have Microsoft Word.

Click on an attachment and save it to your HDD. Go to the saved attachment
and Right click on it | Open with. Find a program that will read it and then
check the box to Always use the selected program to open this type of file.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Frchief" wrote in message
...
When I open some attachments, (message5 txt.) appears. Notepad then opens
and all I see is every person and path the message has gone through and
then
about a million letters and characters. I have Windows XP, Notepad,
Wordpad,
but I don't have Microsoft Word.

You need to save the attachment and rename it to an EML file (e.g.
message5.eml). Then double click the EML file and it will open in an OE
message reading window.

What you are getting is a forwarded message and the sender's program is
not properly identifying the attachment as a mail message.

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

--

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


"Frchief" wrote in message
...
When I open some attachments, (message5 txt.) appears. Notepad then
opens
and all I see is every person and path the message has gone through
and then
about a million letters and characters. I have Windows XP, Notepad,
Wordpad,
but I don't have Microsoft Word.