Mp3 attachments received as Untitled.bin

[tom]

I am having a problem receiving mp3 type attachments in outlook 2002
sp3. For some reason the attacments that are mp3 files are renamed to a
file called untitled bin. Other file types such as jpg and ico are
received ok. On the same computer I also have Outlook Express and if I
use that to receive the mail the mp3 files are received correctly. I
can also rename the untitled.bin files back to a mp3 file and the files
work correctly. Any help apreciated.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am having a problem receiving mp3 type attachments in outlook 2002
sp3. For some reason the attacments that are mp3 files are renamed to
a file called untitled bin. Other file types such as jpg and ico are
received ok. On the same computer I also have Outlook Express and if I
use that to receive the mail the mp3 files are received correctly. I
can also rename the untitled.bin files back to a mp3 file and the
files work correctly. Any help apreciated.

Outlook is less forgiving of differences in the MIME formatting of a
message, so it may be that this is the issue. Open the messages properties
(View>Options) and see what the MIME headers say. I'll bet there's a
problem in the MIME headers.

 

[tom]

Outlook is less forgiving of differences in the MIME formatting of a
message, so it may be that this is the issue. Open the messages properties
(View>Options) and see what the MIME headers say. I'll bet there's a
problem in the MIME headers.

Hi Brian,
below is what I copied from the header

Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:52:51 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0023_01C60415.029D5ED0"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670

 

[Brian Tillman]

below is what I copied from the header

Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:52:51 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0023_01C60415.029D5ED0"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670

So, you sent it from Outlook Express to Outlook, correct? I don't see any
mention of attachment name in these headers. There should be another
Content-Type with a "name=" clause in order for Outlook to know what to call
the attachment. The above Content-Type indicates only that the message has
more than one part, without specifying what the parts are. Subsequent
Content-Type headers should do that, like this:

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C60242.E03F9C00"
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
....snip...
Content-Type: audio/mpeg;
name="myfile.mp3"