Outlook Express - Attachment Recieved, but....

[DealSpree]

I received an email, and it has the attachment to the email, as indicated by the paper clip when viewing the email headers, however when i am viewing the email message, there is no paperclip (pull down menu), to download the attachment.

Anyone got any ideas the attachemtn is pretty important, so any help is appreciated..

thanks..

-roger

 

[singh]

What type of file is the attached file?

 

[DealSpree]

I dont know... since i can't see what files are attached...
the person that emailed me said i need to complete the form and send it back... so i am guessing it's a word document or something...

any ideas?

 

[singh]

Right-Click on the message, select Properties -> Details Tab -> Click on Message Source.

For example, here is what I saw on one of the messages that I have with an attachment:

This is the preamble of a multipart MIME formatted message.
If you are reading this text your mail system is most likely
not capable of properly decoding MIME messages. To extract
the contents of this message, save it to a file and then use
an external MIME decoding utility.

--mime-boundary-interchange-3cff050c
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

--mime-boundary-interchange-3cff050c
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="xxxxxx"
Content-disposition: attachment; filename="xxxxxx"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64

I3ByYWdtYSBpbnNwZWN0DQojcHJhZ21hIHN5bWJvbHMNCg0KI2luY2x1ZGUg

 

[DealSpree]

Oh nice... okay.... so this is what is says...

Content-type: application/ms-tnef;
name="winmail.dat"
Content-transfer-encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="winmail.dat"

followed by a whole bunch of data...i.e.

eJ8+IgkSAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAENgAQAAgAAAAIAAgABBYAD

etc.

how do i translate this to a file?

thanks for your help up til now..

-roger

 

[singh]

This should help you out:
How to read TNEF attachment...