At 02:12 PM 11/2/2009, you wrote: >On Mon, November 2, 2009 2:06 pm, James B. Byrne wrote: > > I am a digest subscriber, so the favour of a direct copy of any > > replies is requested. > > > > > > Our firm uses SquirrelMail (SM) for email and we have a client who > > has begun sending us email documents that SM cannot open. This is a > > MicroSoft Outlook artifact and I suspect it is tied to the XML used > > in the message composition. The problem for us is that the result > > of opening such an email with SM is that it displays nothing. The > > To, From, Subject, and message body all all missing and no > > attachments are found. > > > > If we use Thunderbird then we can see the original message and its > > attachments; and that is what we are using in the meantime to get > > around this problem. However, it would be far more convenient if we > > could use some way of dealing with this message format from within > > SM. > > > > Has anyone here run into this situation? How did you handle it? Is > > there a SquirrelMail solution or must we change email programs just > > to deal with this correspondent? > > > > I have done the Google thing and have not turned up anything of use. > > Perhaps I am using the wrong words. > > > > Sincerely, > > >We have ran into this before I believe. Its been awhile. Have you tried >viewing the message as plain text or html? > >Bo I've used? MailScanner a lot in the past. MailScanner used Perl libraries to decode and translate the .msg files to text as an option. http://mailscanner.info. Good software, but if you already have an antivirus/anti-spam solution, it would be overkill, to the maximus! Glenn