[KLUG Members] Attachments quirk

[Eric Beversluis]

I just discovered a quirk, either in Evolution or in Open Office.

I attached a file (Résumé.doc) to email to myself which I opened in XP.
The file was received by Outlook Express as something like
attachment00003.dat.  Weird. If I saved it and renamed it
(something.doc), it opened OK in Word.

Since the title had the accents (Résumé) I experiment by renaming it
Resume.doc w/o the accents. Then it was received OK by Outlook Express.

Despite the re-naming work around, I don't think this kind of thing is
good. One should be able to send .doc attachments from Linux without
worrying about this kind of snafu. And, eg, what's a Frenchman to do? 

EB