[Gllug] attached files merged into text file

Thu Feb 19 22:41:28 UTC 2009

I sent a sample word document to the email and it had forwarded to the personal email in an attachment named "noname". The full text of the headers in the file is as follows :

From: "Diana Scott" <dianascott1 at hotmail.co.uk>
To: <.co.uk>
Subject: attachments
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:19:52 -0000
Message-ID: <BLU138-W37022ED3CE8FF3C85EEC4FBFB20 at phx.gbl>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
	boundary="----=_NextPart_000_022C_01C992E1.08A15EE0"
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0)
Importance: Normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Feb 2009 22:19:52.0367 (UTC) FILETIME=[2F7AB3F0:01C992E0]
X-Originating-IP: [82.23.51.76]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_022C_01C992E1.08A15EE0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
	boundary="----=_NextPart_001_022D_01C992E1.08A15EE0"

------=_NextPart_001_022D_01C992E1.08A15EE0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

there is an attached file.

_________________________________________________________________
Make a mini you and download it into Windows Live Messenger
http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354029/direct/01/
------=_NextPart_001_022D_01C992E1.08A15EE0
Content-Type: text/html;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<html>
<head>
<style>
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size: 10pt;
font-family:Verdana
}
</style>
</head>
<body class=3D'hmmessage'>
there is an attached file.<br><br /><hr />Try Facebook in Windows Live =
Messenger! <a href=3D'http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354030/direct/01/' =
target=3D'_new'>Try it Now!</a></body>
</html>
------=_NextPart_001_022D_01C992E1.08A15EE0--

------=_NextPart_000_022C_01C992E1.08A15EE0
Content-Type: application/msword;
	name="word document example.doc"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
	filename="word document example.doc"
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Please advise.

Diana

> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:49:27 +0000
> From: john at sinodun.org.uk
> To: gllug at gllug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] attached files merged into text file
> 
> Diana Scott wrote:
> > A client of mine has an email with the company name.co.uk and any
> > incoming email with the attaching files will forward to his personal
> > email address. However, the content of the email message and the
> > attaching files such as .doc or .pdf have also translated into a large
> > block of random characters and merged into a text file called "noname".
> > 
> > An example of the word document has turned into code in the mail text
> > file is as follows:
> > 
> > ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C99120.A95523C0
> > Content-Type: application/msword;
> > 	name="flyer - Carers Art Therapy Group.doc"
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> > Content-Disposition: attachment;
> > 	filename="flyer - Carers Art Therapy Group.doc"
> > 
> > 0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAATAAAAAAAAAAA
> [snip]
> > 
> > 
> > I have reported it to the service provider but they denied any
> > responsibility. Do you know which part has gone wrong and ,more
> > importantly, how to ratify the situation?
> 
> How to ratify the situation?!  You mean he likes it like that?
> 
> Seriously though - this is how attachments work.  An e-mail is just a
> large wodge of text.  If you want to attach a file to an e-mail it's
> embedded as "a large block of random characters" and then it's the job
> of the recipient's e-mail reading program to strip it out again.
> 
> Take any e-mail with an attachment and choose your e-mail client's "view
> source" option and you'll see it for yourself.  As for what's going
> wrong in this case it could be one of two things.  Either the forwarding
> component is corrupting the e-mail in some way (unlikely) or the program
> which he uses to read his e-mail is broken.
> 
> You don't say how he finally reads the e-mail.  Is it a local
> application or a webmail interface?  Can you provide the full text
> (including headers) of a test e-mail with a small attachment?
> 
> Cheers,
> John
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