Why do recipients receive extra attachments?

  • Thread starter Sally Wittenoom
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Sally Wittenoom

When sending jpegs, often recipients reply saying they could only open (for
example) 4 out of 8 of the attachments. I only sent 4, so I'm wondering if
the other 4 are coded for macs (if a pc user), and vice versa.

Does Entourage attach two versions, one for pc and one for mac? Does anyone
know?
 
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Barry Wainwright

When sending jpegs, often recipients reply saying they could only open (for
example) 4 out of 8 of the attachments. I only sent 4, so I'm wondering if
the other 4 are coded for macs (if a pc user), and vice versa.

Does Entourage attach two versions, one for pc and one for mac? Does anyone
know?
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If you use apple-double encoding, any resource fork in your image
(containing, for example, a custom icon) will appear to some windows mail
clients as a separate file. Better clients (on the mac) will recombine the
two parts into a single file, or (on windows) discard the resource fork as
it can't be used in windows.

None of this will affect the performance of a JPEG, where all the necessary
data is in the data fork, which is the first part of the file your
correspondents could open.

If you want to stop this behaviour, switch your default encoding for
attachments to Base64.
 
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