Vista is converting all my Winmail and Winlivemail to attachments

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Dragontooth

Bruce, thanks for your help. I accomplished the following:

1) I cleared the TEMP and TEMPORARY INTERNET folders.

2) I set the encoding to Western (ISO) in Internet Explorer.

3) I made sure that "Read All Messages In Plain Text" is NOT checked.

I still have the problem. It must be related to Winmail or Vista on my PC
since not only do the Inbox emails I receive show as attachments but, every
saved email (Some years old) in ALL my folders also show as attachments when
I try to open them. I cannot find any option in Winmail that might cause
this other than the one I made sure was unchecked.

I also did the following:

1) I just setup an old PC running Windows XP and Outlook Express on my
network. I used it to pull my email and it all looked good. Came in clean
and not as attachments.

2) I installed Windows Live Mail on my Vista machine, pulled my mail and
guess what, they are all attachments.

This must be a Vista problem with Winmail and WinLiveMail and maybe other
email programs? Any ideas where to go next?
_________________________________________________________________
:

This should apply to WinMail as well.

Outlook Express message appears blank and has an ATT000XX.txt or an
ATT000XX.htm attachment: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312351

And from: http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/decode.htm

Besides the problem described in this article with temporary files,
Outlook Express may have a blank message if Internet Explorer is set at
View, Encoding to Auto-Select. If so, disable the Auto-Select in Internet
Explorer and choose instead Western European (ISO). If your program has an
option to read HTML messages in Plain Text, the HTML version of the
message may appear as an ATT0001.HTM attachment (the number may vary).
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


Dragontooth said:
Read all messages in plain text was not checked.

Bruce Hagen said:
Please do not start a new thread for an existing issue. Thank you.

Tools | Options | Read. Uncheck: Read all messages in plain text.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


Every one of my new or saved emails is showing up as an attachment?
The
To,
From, Subject and date are correct.

They are all displayed correctly when I open the attachment.

They all have this format: ATT0000XX.htm (XX.X KB)
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Hi, Dragontooth.

Didn't you read this line from Bruce's post?

Since you missed that, maybe you missed other important parts of Bruce's
advice. :>(

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64

Dragontooth said:
Bruce, thanks for your help. I accomplished the following:

1) I cleared the TEMP and TEMPORARY INTERNET folders.

2) I set the encoding to Western (ISO) in Internet Explorer.

3) I made sure that "Read All Messages In Plain Text" is NOT checked.

I still have the problem. It must be related to Winmail or Vista on my PC
since not only do the Inbox emails I receive show as attachments but,
every
saved email (Some years old) in ALL my folders also show as attachments
when
I try to open them. I cannot find any option in Winmail that might cause
this other than the one I made sure was unchecked.

I also did the following:

1) I just setup an old PC running Windows XP and Outlook Express on my
network. I used it to pull my email and it all looked good. Came in clean
and not as attachments.

2) I installed Windows Live Mail on my Vista machine, pulled my mail and
guess what, they are all attachments.

This must be a Vista problem with Winmail and WinLiveMail and maybe other
email programs? Any ideas where to go next?
_________________________________________________________________
:

This should apply to WinMail as well.

Outlook Express message appears blank and has an ATT000XX.txt or an
ATT000XX.htm attachment: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312351

And from: http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/decode.htm

Besides the problem described in this article with temporary files,
Outlook Express may have a blank message if Internet Explorer is set at
View, Encoding to Auto-Select. If so, disable the Auto-Select in Internet
Explorer and choose instead Western European (ISO). If your program has
an
option to read HTML messages in Plain Text, the HTML version of the
message may appear as an ATT0001.HTM attachment (the number may vary).
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


Dragontooth said:
Read all messages in plain text was not checked.

:

Please do not start a new thread for an existing issue. Thank you.

Tools | Options | Read. Uncheck: Read all messages in plain text.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


Every one of my new or saved emails is showing up as an attachment?
The
To,
From, Subject and date are correct.

They are all displayed correctly when I open the attachment.

They all have this format: ATT0000XX.htm (XX.X KB)
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
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