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Re: Sending attachments to AOL user

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From: Kathy Morgan
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:15
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Herbert Kanner <kanner@deadspam.com> wrote:

> I am using Eudora 6.1 on a Mac running OS X 10.3  A correspondent who
> uses AOL cannot open explicit attachments, regardless of whether I use
> Apple Double, Apple Single, BinHex, or Uuencode. However, if I paste the
> attachment, a .jpg in the case in question, directly into the mail form,
> turning the mail into .html and making the .jpg an implicit attachment,
> it goes through fine.

Are you trying to send more than one attachment at a time?  With some
(maybe all) versions of AOL users can only receive one attachment per
message, so if you are trying to send more than one, you must first
bundle all attachments into a zip archive before attaching.

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Subject: Re: Sending attachments to AOL user
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