Witness Protection Program for email attachments

June 2, 2006 1:29 PM

Why are some attached .doc file names being changed to ATT000??.doc?

ThunderbirdFilter: At work, I use Thunderbird 1.5 and all of my colleagues use this other program from some company called Tinysoft or something like that. When I send messages with attached .doc files, they are correctly stored in my sent folder, but when the recipient gets the message, the name of the file has changed to ATT000??.doc, where ?? is a combination of integers. This only happens some of the time, and I suspect that it has to do with the size of the name of the document. There are similar problems here and here.

Lots of info about message text being converted into attachments with similar names, and about attached files being changed into new files with similar names, but nothing about attachments that just undergo namechanges.

Needless to say, I would like to fix this. Any help?

posted by billtron to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

I'm digging waaaay back in the memory banks here, but I recall seeing this when a PC client sent a RTF-formatted message, with an attachment, to any Mac client. The solution was to change the sender's message formatting to either text or HTML.
posted by Spurious Packets at 4:06 PM on June 2, 2006

Response by poster: wow. nothing. I thought I would get help here.

Thanks for trying, Spurious Packets, but that's not what my problem is. It's not the message that is screwed up, it's the attachment.
posted by billtron at 1:24 PM on June 5, 2006