Friday, September 23, 2005

Thunderbird Attachment Problems

Since i had a Harddiskcrash and reinstalled my System new, i also changed my local Email Program to Thunderbird.

But now i have serious Troubles getting Attachments from Outlook Sender... the Attachments i receive all are called Part1.2 ..

I am having a gmail Account and therefore i also checked it over the Browser.. the Attachments look all very good.

In the web i just found the following:
Actually it's a compatibility issue between Outlook and Thunderbird (Mozilla). It is because Thunderbird cannot decode the MS-TNEF MIME format HTML or Picture which was composed into the mail body by Outlook. You can find the MS-TNEF BASE64 encoding part in the mail source, and Thunderbird regards this part as an attachment named Part1.2.
------_=_NextPart_000_01C4E756.ED7E9F5E
Content-Type: application/ms-tnef
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
since that Post was written December 21, 2004, i hoped there is already a fix or something for it.. but i am unable to find one...

any ideas?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bugzilla has a bug of Thunderbird open for it. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282822 for a start.

Dready said...

They will not fix it.. for them it's an extension problem.. meaning: there should be an extension for it.. unfortunately there is not.. but i found this: http://zfacts.com/p/64.html

use a free 3rd Party tool to extract the files..

also look here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77811#c14

of course it's all microsoft fault:
http://agamemnon.ucs.ed.ac.uk/faq/mstnef.html

Anonymous said...

Just in case someone looks for the answer here, the solution for the Part1.2 attachments in Thunderbird can be found in:

http://hogiblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/attachments-will-be-something-like.html