On Wednesday 07 August 2002 20:00, eric wrote:
When someone forwards me attachments, GIF, JPG, MPEG whatever, I get
I had this problem also in Kmail. Have not had it since starting using Evolution. Art -----Original Message----- From: eric.linux@t-online.de [mailto:eric.linux@t-online.de] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 12:56 PM To: Anders Johansson; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Puzzled on Kmail Attachments Anders, Ok, I agree and thank you for your help in this. My question is: What do you mean by 'real email'? If 80% of the world is using M$ what's real? I can't tell the sender to use real email if I can't also explain to the sender how to do it. I'm caught in a Catch-22 and I'd love to be able to explain to the sender how to do this. Ideas? Eric On Wednesday 07 August 2002 21:36, Anders Johansson wrote: them
as an attachment but they are basically garbage. I get an attachment icon showing a big green question mark saying Attachment: 1
When they are also sent to my other mail account using M$ Outlook they come out ok. If I then save them to a file, create a new message and re-send them to my KDE Kmail account they come out ok.
Eric forwarded me an example off-list. The attachments are ms-tnef (Microsoft Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format), and kmail can't handle it. I found a program called Fentun that claims to be able to handle it, but I've never tried it.
My best suggestion is that you ask people that mail you to use real email, and not allow Microsoft to monopolize email. If you still absolutely must be able to read it, look at
http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_3458.html
regards Anders
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