[CLUE-Tech] Mime types in KMail (KDE 2.0)

[Kevin Cullis]

"Jeffery C. Cann" wrote:
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> I will save a Star Office 5.2 document as type MS 97/2000 Word document.  If
> I email this document using KMail (KDE2) to myself at work, my Lotus Notes
> client reads interprets the document attachment correctly and I can open it
> using MS Word.  BTW - I am attaching document as BASE64.
> 
> When I send the same document to someone who uses (surprize) MS Outlook or MS
> Outlook Express (not sure exactly which one), the receipient always resports
> that the attachment is garbled.
> 
> This seems to be a problem with MS email clients.  Does anyone have
> suggestions to remedy this problem?
> 
> Thanks
> Jeff

Jeff,

I had simliar problems with sending Mac files to Windows and the problem
in each case was the compression of the document. I had to select
uncompressed as default when sending files. This may be the case in your
instance.  If not, let me know what fixed it.

Hope this helps.

Kevin