[pic9809]

i regularly email MS Office docs from my mac at home (running 10.2.8) to my PC at work (running lotus notes) through Apple's mail app. whenever i do this, the documents get all jumbled by the time they arrive. yet when i transfer the files via flash, there is no problem. have any of you had similar problems? if so, is there a way to fix it? is running entourage the solution?

many thx in advance

[Uday's Carcass]

I routinely get ppt and word docs through entourage and have emailed word docs to windows users before. Never any problems.

you can give it a try. test it out.

[kcmac]

when you send the files, do they have the extensions visible? .doc, .ppt etc?

This works for me with mail. I gave up entourage long ago and am the only mac in a company littered with PC's.

[Thinine]

It may (or may not) have something to do with the way Mail.app sends attachments. I know in Panther's Mail there's a setting to 'Always send Windows friendly attachments', whatever that means.

[sray]

If you're using Mail in OS X.2.8 then you need to use GrimRipper to remove the resource forks from you Office attachments prior to sending them out:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16168

This is not an issue in Panther, as the new Mail uses a different encoding format (instead of appleDouble) for attachments.