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ero87

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Jan 17, 2006
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Hey guys,

Lately, when I send an attached document via mail, my recipient complains to me that the file type is ".bin" or "binary". It still opens in Word if you force it, but the file icon is weird as is the file type. Anyone know why/what this is, or what's going on?

Thanks!

p.s. these recipients have macs, so it's not a windows issue.
 
Well, what sort of documents are you sending and are the attachments appearing as BIN files in your Sent folder? Are the Macs you're sending these files too all run by the same admin? In other words, could it still be a problem their end concerning permissions?
 
It's been two different recipients.

and they show up as .doc files in my sent folder :confused:

any further help would be appreciated, thanks a lot guys.
 
It's been two different recipients.

and they show up as .doc files in my sent folder :confused:

any further help would be appreciated, thanks a lot guys.
Sounds to me like an encoding problem - for some strange reason, Mail thinks the attachments are encoded in MacBinary (.bin) when they really aren't.

Assuming this is the case, are the documents gibberish when viewed by the recipient? If they are, their Mail clients aren't decoding prior to downloading. If not, then the problem is most likely with the attachment encoding setting, either on your computer, theirs, or both (for example, yours is different from theirs).
 
The documents aren't gibberish, they just force it to "open with" Word and they read just fine. So I'm not sure what to fix... how can i fix my "encoding"?
 
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