At 6:43 PM -0400 10/29/04, Tee Cashmore wrote: >On 29-Oct-04, at 5:02 PM, Mary wrote: > >> Hmm. So, you knew that Mail app was stuck, specifically in the >> process of opening the attachment because you observed ... what..? > >I observed a coloured spinning ball that would not stop spinning even >after 15 minutes. So, that tells us that Mail was pre-occupied with a process, but not (exactly) that Mail was attempting to open the attachment. >My Netscape opens attachments when I click on them, but that can be set >up. In Mail it evidently can't. All attachments in my version of Mail >open up immediately and show up in the body of the email itself. Hmm, I don't use Mail, myself, so have no direct experience. In looking on the net, I found, to my surprise, that Mail does auto-open and display attachments if they are graphic files. I believe that this auto-behaviour is confined to graphic files. Is that your experience, or are you saying that an attached text file or a spreadsheet, for example, would open automatically and show up in the body of the email. That seems doubtful to me. Was your problem attachment a graphic file? Mary _________________________________________________ For information concerning the MUGLO List just click on http://muglo.on.ca/Pages/joinus.html Our Archives can be viewed at //www.freelists.org/archives/muglo Don't forget to periodically check our web site at: http://muglo.on.ca/