Lukan wrote:
> I'm using the latest version of Thunderbird, Windows Vista.
>
> Since I've been using this on my new machine for about a week I'm
> experiencing something that never happened before - occasionally I'll
> get attachments emailed to me, but they are coming up just as
> "attachment" as the file name, and no file extension.
>
> If I double click the attachment nothing happens, and if I right-click
> and select "open" still nothing happens.
>
> I can recieve .JPG attachments etc fine. I have an inkling that what I
> am being sent are html emails and they're just not displaying correctly.
> In saying that I can recieve other html emails ...
>
> Is this a Thunderbird thing or a Vista thing?
check your firewall, antivirus checker, or some other
program running in the background. All these have been
known to cause all sorts of problems with attachments. Some
programs will change the .jpg, or .zip, or others, to
something else -- especially Norton Internet Security is
notorious for doing this.
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