[funkboy]

I'm sending myself .doc files from both Windows and Mac computers to my iMac. I send them via an IMAP mailbox from itself to itself.

When I see the file in Mail.app, it shows up just fine. But when I open it up, it's just gobbledy-gook, a bunch of text, like an encoding method.

I'm not exactly sure what the problem is - I send it to myself using a website to send myself email (a webmail.email.com access website), and I can get the attachment just fine if I go back to the webmail website and download it from there. Luckily, I've been able to get it this way so far, because I haven't lost any messages that were deleted by the server for being too old. But if they do get deleted, and I have to go into Mail.app to rescue them, and cannot, I'll be ... angry.

How can I get Mail.app to decode whatever format that webmail application is using to encode stuff? I imagine UUEncode, possibly... and I saw a thread about this earlier, with no way to fix it... Help!

[Tiffany Mac]

i've also had problems.

when i send pictures, it turns 'some' of them into .mime files
which don't open on my computer

it sucks

[cpac]

this has been discussed quite a bit in other threads - do a search and you'll find lots of answers.

A few suggested fixes:

Make sure you attachments are the very last thing in the mail message (i.e. dont have <text><attachment><more text>)

zip your files before sending them - for whatever reason, this seems to solve the problem.

send .pdfs rather than word files if you don't need to send things in an editable form - these always seem to go through ok.

[step]

it's also possible to extract some attachments by cutting and pasting the whole message source (view menu/show/ raw source) and pasting it into a blank bbedit (lite) doc, save it, then drop it on stuffit expander (you might have to save it a with a .bin extension)

-ste

[hamiltondj]

I think this has to do something with the way mail.app compresses the files (search the forums...the answer is out there....)

Easy fix...zip up the files.