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Topic: E-Mail attachments problem (sylpheed), Corrupted .doc files

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Delboy

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Posted: Feb. 28 2005,11:38

Can anyone please help? I regularly need to send work MS.doc files home by e-mail as attachments. For over a year, I had no problems at all receiving mails with .doc files with Sylpheed and then saving them to home/dsl/. They would all open up ok. with Abiword. This also worked well with XFmail client I used for a while. When using DSL V0.92 a few weeks ago, with the Opera extension mail client, I noticed that the attachment 'save' function didn't work. .Doc files would open with Abiword as a series of question marks - nothing more. Assuming this was an Opera problem, I went back to Sylpheed (under DSL V0.93). Sending and receiving is fine but, again, the .DOC files are corrupted. This never happened with Sylpheed in the Past. It seems like a system error. .RTF files have also been affected like this. .Pdf files on the other hand are not affected at all. Any thoughts?

cbagger01

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Posted: Feb. 28 2005,17:18

Are you using DSL embedded or are you booting DSL natively and not running it inside of a MS Windows qemu window?

Delboy

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Posted: Mar. 01 2005,11:23

Sorry - don't really know what Qemu is. I am running HD installed DSL on a separate Hda2 partition with Lilo, my dial-up is ok., internet works fine, mails themselves are no problem, installed Abiword .DSL is the latest. I might just clear it all and reload again from scratch.

Delboy

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Posted: Mar. 04 2005,21:14

well it was obvious really. Somehow, Abiword got broken in both previous DSL installs, how I don't know. Reloading the Abiword extension again did not help. Anyway I reloaded V0.93 again from scratch and the usual extensions - Abiword one of the first and Opera again. It all works fine now - all MS.Doc files open up without any problems in Abiword, having been saved as an attachment in Opera e-mail. Sylpheed of course must be OK too.

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