Attachments messed up going to Exchange SOLVED

[Michael Crider]

Thank you, Paul. That was the problem exactly. The filename she was 
sending was 69 characters. I shortened it to 21 characters and it went 
through just fine. I printed the article for my file of future reference 
material.

Michael

Paul Bijnens wrote:
> On 2007-05-30 19:02, Scott Silva wrote:
>
>   
>> Sender is using Thunderbird, receiver is using Outbroke (outlook), so Rich
>> text is not the issue.
>>
>>     
>
> If the LookOut receiver sees the filenames of the attachment only
> as ".dat" files, instead of the original name, then you problaby run
> into:
>
>  http://kb.mozillazine.org/Attachments_renamed
>
> The explanation there is about thunderbird 1.5.
> I'm using thunderbird 2.0 and the default setting for that parameter
> is "3", which seems to solve the problem for Outlook and Thunderbird
> receipients at the same time, by adding mimeheaders so that both are
> picking up the right name.
>
> If you're too lazy to read/understand the article,
> then do in thunderbird:
>
>    Preferences  -> Advanced  -> Config Editor...
>
> find parameter    "mail.strictly_mime.parm_folding"
> and set the value to "0" instead of "2".
> If the value is "3", you're already using Thunderbird 2.0,
> which does not generate the problem the LookOut lusers.
>
>   

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