Attachment encoding

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Steve B.

I'm using Entourage X under OS 10.3.9 (Panther). I just tried to send an
attachment to a PC-user who is having a problem opening it.

I notice that, when I drag the attachment into Entourage, it adds '.bin' to
the end of the file name. I assume this means that Entourage is binhexing
the file for transmission. Is this the problem? Can I make Entourage zip the
file instead?

Thanks in advance,
Steve = : ^ )
 
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Craig Deutsch

Strange. Entourage on my Mac never compresses anything. My hunch is your
preferences are set incorrectly.

Go to Entourage>Preferences>Mail & News Preferences>Compose and see what's
checked under the Attachments section. Mine are set for "Encode for Any
computer/AppleDouble" and Compression is set to None.

Once in a while I get a PC user who can't open something even when the
attachment is sent as AppleDouble. In those cases I click on the Attachments
part of the email window and switch the encoding (for that email only) to
Windows only.

Hope this helps.

Craig
 
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Steve B.

Craig Deutsch said:
Strange. Entourage on my Mac never compresses anything. My hunch is your
preferences are set incorrectly.

Go to Entourage>Preferences>Mail & News Preferences>Compose and see what's
checked under the Attachments section. Mine are set for "Encode for Any
computer/AppleDouble" and Compression is set to None.
Click to expand...

Mine are set the same as yours, yet if I drag a MYOB file from the desktop
into the Attachments pane, it appears with '.bin' appended to the name and,
if I save or send the message, I get 'Encoding attachment...' for a couple
of seconds before the action is performed. Is this different to how your
system behaves?
Once in a while I get a PC user who can't open something even when the
attachment is sent as AppleDouble. In those cases I click on the Attachments
part of the email window and switch the encoding (for that email only) to
Windows only.
Click to expand...

I'll remember that, thanks.

Steve = : ^ )
 
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trebs

I have mine set to 'Windows ( MIME/Base 64 )', I read somewhere in a Ma
mag' that this is the best one to have it set to if sending to PC's.

Not had a problem yet, touch wood.

Stev
 
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Mickey Stevens

Craig Deutsch said:


Mine are set the same as yours, yet if I drag a MYOB file from the desktop
into the Attachments pane, it appears with '.bin' appended to the name and,
if I save or send the message, I get 'Encoding attachment...' for a couple
of seconds before the action is performed. Is this different to how your
system behaves?
Click to expand...

Try unchecking the option to "Append file name extensions". Even though the
file is encoded for transfer, it should remain usable on the other end.
 
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