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[John Broome <jbroome AT gmail.com>]

On 5/13/05, Roger Austin <raustin3 AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Susan LaBarre wrote:
> > Perhaps someone can help me solve this mystery. 8 out of 10 times, when I
> > send an attachment from my Earthlink email in Outlook, it gets stripped 
> > out
> > by the time the email arrives at its destination.
> 
> The type of computer is irrelevant most likely. The type of
> email client is probably not an issue either, but is easily
> tested by installing something like Netscape or Thunderbird.
> It could possibly be a setup issue in Outlook, but that should
> work all the time not 80%.
>   What type of files are you attaching? Are they document,
> HTML, executables? Do some types go through, but not others?
>   More likely it has something to do with Earthlink or the
> recipient's providers. Most email lists will strip out files.
>   I would contact Earthlink to see if they have some ruleset on
> attachments. Is this something new or did it start at a specific
> time?


I have a feeling that EL is stripping out .exe, .url, .scr, etc
attachments.  I don't think i have even used my earthlink email
address since i got it, but i'll send some stuff to myself through
their server and see what happens.