Entourage handles application/applefile differently

[Kevin]

A word document attached to an email sent through a webmail service (Yahoo,
for example) is attached (possibly incorrectly) with a Content-Type of
application/applefile.

When received using Entourage, the attachment can not be viewed. It is
decoded to a 0 byte file that displays (in Word) as a blank page.

I can change the raw email received so that the Conten-Type header reads
application/octetstream and then display it again using Entourage and the
attachment is decoded correctly.

The attachment is also shown without error when using AppleMail, Thunderbird
on the Mac, and also when using Thunderbird or Outlook Express on a PC.

Using the same webmail service to send, Word documents are attached with
Content-Type: "application/msword" headers and these are processed correctly.

So the questions are:

Why is Entourage not able to save/open these applefile attachments in the
same way as the other email clients, and

Why is Firefox treating a word document as an application/applefile where
Safari is able to recognise it properly?

 

[Kevin]

Sorry, the

Using the same webmail service to send, Word documents are attached with
Content-Type: "application/msword" headers and these are processed correctly.

Should have said

Using the same webmail service to send with the Safari browser ....

 

[Nick]

Did you ever resolve this issue? We are experiencing the same issue now.

-Nick

 

[Ed Kimball]

Did you ever resolve this issue? We are experiencing the same issue now.

-Nick

Do you have the Append file name extensions turned on in Preferences ->
Compose?

 

[Nick]

In Entourage the preference is set to on, but the problem is receiving emails
in entourage, not sending/composing them. This problem seems to come from
users sending email using ThunderBird when the receiver is using Entourage
2004.