Talk:E-mail attachment
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- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the debate was move for consistency. —Nightstallion (?) 12:15, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move
Email attachment → E-mail attachment: Spelling per dictionary and other pages in E-mail category. Redirect with multiple edits already exists at destination, so requires administrator.
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- Support Barefootguru 20:44, 15 February 2006 (UTC) (proposer)
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[edit] Corruption by added dots
I added the section on corruption of email by added dots. This does happen, and is not a one-off occurrence, although hopefully rare.
I have the misfortune of being involvbed with a database which sends out updates via email, using Outlook Express (OE) as MAPI client. After an outbreak of corruption, I find that OE uses quoted-printable (qp) encoding for files which are predominantly ASCII text; this cannot be overriden. When email was sent to users of a particular ISP, a dot was prefixed to every line beginning with the dot. If it just so happened that the database file being sent had a line beginning with a dot, it became corrupted.
This was not a unique problem; there were 4 outbreaks of intermittent corruption on 3 different ISPs. These were simply ISPs we used; this is not the result of a check on a wide selection of ISPs. In two cases the ISP confirmed that there had been an error in software at their end.
Binary encoding protocols don't use the dot character, to avoid just this sort of problem.
I won't go into details, but thsi has to do with the Internet mail system adding temporary dots at one end which are supposed to be stripped off ath the other.
Pol098 17:08, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] File does not attach with mail
I am using icenet.net in combination with lotus notes for sending e-mails out from my firm. I am unable to attach the file with mail lately. Looking for possible reasons.
- Hi there!! You might want to ask this question at Wikipedia:Reference desk. It's unlikely that you'll get an answer on this talk page as it's not the right place to ask questions like the one you just asked. :) I hope somebody can help you! Srose (talk) 02:28, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
