A word do***ent attached to an email sent through a webmail service (Yahoo,
for example) is attached (possibly incorrectly) with a Content-Type of
application/applefile.
When received using Entourage, the attachment can not be viewed. It is
decoded to a 0 byte file that displays (in Word) as a blank page.
I can change the raw email received so that the Conten-Type header reads
application/octetstream and then display it again using Entourage and the
attachment is decoded correctly.
The attachment is also shown without error when using AppleMail,
Thunderbird
on the Mac, and also when using Thunderbird or Outlook Express on a PC.
Using the same webmail service to send, Word do***ents are attached with
Content-Type: "application/msword" headers and these are processed
correctly.
So the questions are:
Why is Entourage not able to save/open these applefile attachments in the
same way as the other email clients, and
Why is Firefox treating a word do***ent as an application/applefile where
Safari is able to recognise it properly?
