Saving Text file attachments?

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Keith Esau

Is there a way to get text file attachments to show in the attachments box
instead of inline after the email? I need to be able to save the text files,
and the only way I can do it is to copy the text from the email and paste it
into Text Editor and save the file.

In one case this week, I had 773 pages of text (according to the print
dialog) to find who-knows-how-many files of text, and ALL the names for the
original text files are lost, which is bad for code files.
 
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matt neuburg

Keith Esau said:
Is there a way to get text file attachments to show in the attachments box
instead of inline after the email?
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That is how text file attachments do show OMM. It sounds to me like
these are not text file attachments - perhaps someone just pasted the
text right into the mail message. Have you a way of learning what the
sender actually did, with what mail client, etc.? m.
 
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Keith Esau

I did a View Source, and each "file" begins with a section like this (that
is displayed as a line in the viewer):

Content-Type: text/plain;
name="gen.dps"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="gen.dps"

The email text section only has the following header:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Other sections work fine to show files to be saved:

Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
name="Report.sel"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="Report.sel"


Apparently, the "Content-Disposition: inline;" is the problem. It would be
nice if there was a way to override this.
 
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mmmmark

Keith Esau said:
I did a View Source, and each "file" begins with a section like this (that
is displayed as a line in the viewer):

Content-Type: text/plain;
name="gen.dps"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="gen.dps"

The email text section only has the following header:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Other sections work fine to show files to be saved:

Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
name="Report.sel"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="Report.sel"


Apparently, the "Content-Disposition: inline;" is the problem. It would be
nice if there was a way to override this.
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Would always zipping them be an option?
 
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Paul Berkowitz

I did a View Source, and each "file" begins with a section like this (that
is displayed as a line in the viewer):

Content-Type: text/plain;
name="gen.dps"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="gen.dps"

The email text section only has the following header:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Other sections work fine to show files to be saved:

Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
name="Report.sel"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="Report.sel"


Apparently, the "Content-Disposition: inline;" is the problem. It would be
nice if there was a way to override this.
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That means that the sender DID NOT SEND AN ATTACHMENT. Content-Disposition:
inline means that s/he pasted a file into the body of the email. Entourage,
when sending, only will do that within HTML messages. (I'm not referring to
the file here, but to the message format.) It would be unusual, to say the
least, for any email client to allow inline disposition for plain text
messages. So this is probably a multipart message, yes?

Tell the lasted sender NOT to paste in files but to send attachments ONLY.
That way you can find the attachment (obviously). If the user is not on a
Mac, our type of drag-and-drop may not be operating. Tell the send to add
attachments from whichever menu has an "Add Attachment" menu item instead of
pasting.

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Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
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Keith Esau

These were all attached files, not pasted. The binary files were in the
multipart list before the text files.

I am the lone Mac user in my company. Everyone is forbidden to use Outlook
or Outlook Express, so most people use Netscape Communicator for email. I
can't find a setting in there to change how attachments are handled.
 
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