Inge, the files were not decoded by your email program. I was
able to decode them back to RTF by using a UUDECODE program, however I
had to strip out all the header junk to do it. The files are still in
the Mime format via which they are transported across the Internet. If
you can find an easy way to decode them (that is if WINZIP will work on
them with all the email headers and junk in there) then fine. Try it like
Nigel mentioned and report back.
Cy
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:39:51 +1300 (NZDT) nigel.lemmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
writes:
>
> Exactly. That is the indication that the email with attachment is
> encoded in a
> form that your email program doesn't understand.
>
> Save the message and then open it with winzip. You will then be
> able to save
> the attachment as a valid word file or whatever. This works with
> uuencode,
> mime, binhex etc and also works for messages sent from outlook that
> outlook
> express doesn't understand.
>
> Nigel
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