Attachments arrive renamed to ATT####.###

[Jerry]

As of recently the email attachments I receive (some, not all) arrive
renamed to either:

1. ATT#####.### or
2. <original name>.DAT

It seems this happens with JPG, DOC and EXE files. I am able to open them
with the relevant program, and there seems otherwise nothing wrong with
these files. These renamed attachments come from known senders who know
nothing about why this is happening. And they arrive from more than one ISP,
even more than one country. I asked a friend sending one such attachment to
send it to my 4 different emails (with 4 different ISPs), and they all
arrived equally renamed. However, I used the same client (Outlook 2003 for
all)

Anyone knows who/why does this? Is it my Outlook? Is it a virus, or perhaps
just the opposite - somebody's (ISP?) idea of some sort of protection?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

ATT is caused by one of the servers munging the message, probably your mail
server. the Dat file is caused by sending an RTF formatted message -
normally outlook can decode them but if the message is munged by the server,
it can't.

 

[Chuck Davis]

"munged" That's a technical term.

ATT is caused by one of the servers munging the message, probably your
mail server. the Dat file is caused by sending an RTF formatted message -
normally outlook can decode them but if the message is munged by the
server, it can't.

 

[Anian]

It's outlook problem, it's not receice attachment in new standart RCF. Use
thunderbird ) I hope what MS have patch for this problem

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Which *new* *RCF* does Thunderbird use?

It's outlook problem, it's not receice attachment in new standart RCF. Use
thunderbird ) I hope what MS have patch for this problem

 

[Anian]

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