Re: [Evolution] odd behavior with MS OLE_Obj

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

I think its like the Exchange internet mail gateway code strips this
stuff out of the main message and doesn't turn it into a proper
attachment.

I've seen it before with word docs, and other stuff.

On 10 May 2001 00:13:24 +0500, Dan Winship wrote:
> > he's sending the mail in plain text (so it's not an html issue). He
> > swears he's not doing anything different with each mail so i'm wondering
> > if it is an inconsistancy with evolution handling pasted text.
>
> But Evolution has no idea whether the text was pasted or typed or
> whatever.
>
> You can do "View" -> "Source" to see the raw source of the message, and
> you'll almost certainly find the "<<...OLE_Obj...>>" strings are in
> there literally.
>
> > any insight would be much appreciated.
>
> Micros0ft sux!
>
> Oh wait, no, that wasn't very insightful. I dunno. I think something
> he's doing must be generating text in some cases and OLE references in
> others, and Outlook (or whatever he's using) doesn't flatten the
> embedded object to text. I don't know Windows well enough to say for
> sure how he could make it work reliably.
>
> -- Dan
>
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