[vancenase]

hi all-

when mail.app receives text attachments (usually in .txt, but sometimes w/ other endings, but always a text file), it inserts the text directly into the email body rather than showing as an actually attachment.

does anyone know of a workaround? i'd like it to just show it, but if need be, maybe someone can help me make an applescript to either a) save it to the file the 'raw source' of the email specifies, or b) open up the text in textedit so that it can be saved ...

here is an example raw source header, within the email, right before the text is displayed:

Content-Type: TEXT/plain; name="the_file.tcl"; charset=us-ascii; x-unix-mode=0644
Content-Description: the_file.tcl
Content-MD5: NfzvlfWMzjtdnbogo6B6OQ==

there's got to be some way to have mail.app either show the file as "the_file.tcl" (as an icon, similar to how all attachments show be displayed in mail.app; i prefer this), or write an applescript that would parse the email, look for a raw source heading similar to this, and either save it as a file (file name as listed) in a designated folder (say ~/mail_attachments), or open it up in textedit.

i just don't know how to do any of the above!!

thanks for the input!

[vancenase]

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[Diggory Laycock]

Originally posted by vancenase:
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Are you sure?

I see this:

[vancenase]

i'm absolutely sure. it could be an issue when the item is sent from a specific type of computer or created on a specific type of computer (i.e. it's a unix-based text file).

i've had it happen to me at least 10 times. i've had to copy and paste the text in to a text file. it's just a huge pain, since the files i'm sent are usually extremely large text files.

how do you have mail.app display your email? html? text?

[Diggory Laycock]

I'd agree that it's probably the sending client that formatted the mail in a way that mail.app does not seem to handle.

I use HTML display.

[azarel]

Originally posted by vancenase:
i'm absolutely sure. it could be an issue when the item is sent from a specific type of computer or created on a specific type of computer (i.e. it's a unix-based text file).

i've had it happen to me at least 10 times. i've had to copy and paste the text in to a text file. it's just a huge pain, since the files i'm sent are usually extremely large text files.

how do you have mail.app display your email? html? text?

I have the same problem. The text file that I received from my customer could not be viewed as an attachment and instead it is shown as gibberish text (or in RAW source). Is there a way to not let mail.app open the txt file and rather display it as an attachment? I had to resort to read it off mail2web.com.