Good morning,

I posted this yesterday morning but have not seen any
replies/suggestions so far.

I have a client with Win98, IE5, and OE 5.  He often receives *.eml
messages attached to mail.  If the eml file is MIME encoded, he sees an
empty window when he opens the paper clip.  BUT... if he right-clicks the
message and selects PROPERTIES - DETAILS - MESSAGE SOURCE,
the entire message IS there.

Usually this occurs when the original message has been attached and/or
forwarded through several people, such as: Person A sends it to Person B
who sends it to Person C and so on, with the last person (and maybe
others?) creating an attachment.

Here is a portion of the header (of the outer-most message)
as displayed in the message source window:

   X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1162
   MIME-Version: 1.0
   Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_01BEB90B.0BBBFA00"
   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
   X-UIDL: c525077ad86dda26fdbabe999eb7c0fa

   This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

   ------=_NextPart_000_01BEB90B.0BBBFA00
   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
   ----------
   > From: Donna A

I have looked all through OE option dialogs and can not find anything even
remotely connected to this phenomenon.


Jim Meagher
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http://www.ezy.net/~microsol     International Webmasters Association
410-543-8996                MS Site Builder Network - Level 2 member
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