On Thu, 30 May 2002, dman wrote: > Yeah, MS Outhouse is a virus that is clearly indicated by that test. > MS Outhouse sends _all_ attachments as octet-stream, including *plain > text*! It's a real PITA. > > (though maybe it's just the "Express" version that does it)
Perhaps it's an Exchange gateway rather than Outlook itself which is making all the attachments appear to be octet-stream? Outlook Express appears to attach images as images just fine: < Message-ID: <000801c20824$c8e215e0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < MIME-Version: 1.0 < Content-Type: multipart/mixed; < boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C207EA.1C2629C0" < X-Priority: 3 < X-MSMail-Priority: Normal < X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 < X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 < Parts/Attachments: < 1 Shown 1 lines Text < 2 OK 4.4 KB Image < ---------------------------------------- < < < < [ Part 2, Image/PNG 5.9KB. ] < [ Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part. ] The actual embedded MIME header-block: < ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C207EA.1C2629C0 < Content-Type: image/png; < name="5min.png" < Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 < Content-Disposition: attachment; < filename="5min.png" I generated that by drag'n'drop onto an OE message window. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk