[Hidden-tech] Sending attachments from Mac to PC

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:35:00 -0500 Linda Taylor <lintaylor at verizon.net> wrote:

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> I'm on a Mac. Sometimes I send and attachment to a PC and they tell  
> me it only came as an image embedded in the email. I'm sure sometimes  
> the person just sees the image and doesn't bother trying to save the  
> attachment but it has also happened to some savvy PC owners. Anyone  
> know why this happens? I have "Save Window Friendly attachments"  
> turned on.

Apple Mail seems to generally sent two attachments: one is the file and
the other is an 'AppleMail' thingy (some kind of meta data thing). 
This *could* be confusing your PC correspondents. The AppleMail thingy
is only meaningful on another Mac.

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