why ATT00171.txt (126 B) ???

G

Gustavo

Why does it appear and attachmetnt on some emails in the
form of a .txt file containing the same email body?
 
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Alan

Gustavo said:
Why does it appear and attachmetnt on some emails in the
form of a .txt file containing the same email body?
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I am guessing, but it might be that you are reading all your email in
text format only (quite sensible IMHO), but you are being sent
formatted emails (HTML, RTF, ... etc.)

Perhaps that attachment is the extra formatting information that your
client is not using?

Just a guess really.

Alan.
 
B

Brian Tillman

Alan said:
Perhaps that attachment is the extra formatting information that your
client is not using?

Just a guess really.
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And not a good one, because the OP said:

So, we already know that there is no formatting in the attachment. However,
your suggestion that it may be a format mismatch seems plausible, with the
problem being on the sender's side.
 
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Alan

Brian Tillman said:
And not a good one, because the OP said:


So, we already know that there is no formatting in the attachment.
However, your suggestion that it may be a format mismatch
seems plausible, with the
problem being on the sender's side.
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Hi Brian,

The text file cannot be formatted by definition (assuming we are
talking about a simple TXT file here).

However, it is likely that the text file is created by the receiving
client in an attempt to capture as much of the original information as
it can, within the scope of what it understands. That means that all
you are left with is the text file with all the formatting information
gone or perhaps mangled into pseudo-code in the text file (but the OP
did not mention that).

Not sure what you meant by
with the problem being on the sender's side
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but I suspect that the sender is using HTML or something similar.

Inadvisable perhaps - I believe that it is best to stick to plain text
in emails which may be what you meant, in which case I wholeheartedly
agree.

However, personally I don't tell my correspondents to turn off HTML,
since that would seem a bit rude to me, but each of us is different.

FWIW, I just block such stuff at the client side, and strip all HTML
from the subject body as my emails transfer to my Outlook client.

Thanks,

Alan.
 
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