I'm gonna guess this has something to do with the hotmail and lycos
systems, but did you try sending these docs with another MUA?
If that does the job, you might want to check out your mailcap file.
HTH
Lou
On 07/03/01 10:10 AM, Masand, Manish sat at the `puter and typed:
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> Hi !
> Could anyone pls help me out with this.
> I am sending a pdf attachment with my mails from commandline.The pdf file
> contains a gif .
> If i send such mails to mail addreses within the organisation i.e
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], it works fine.
> But if i send it to hotmail accounts,lycos accounts,etc ....these get
> corrupted.The physical size of the attachment
> that reaches the hotmail account is not the same .The attachment while
> opening gives an error 'Error opening file'.
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> To tackle this problem i was using .mime.types with an entry of
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> application/octect-stream pdf
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> but this does not solve the problem.
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> Thanks in anticipation,
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> Manish Masand
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