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Ghost attachments appearing?

Im having a problem when sending attachments, they are only word documents but the person on the other end is receiving the attachments and then an internet looking attachment for each word attachment i send.

If the recipient has a hotmail account it is blocking the email getting through as its making the email so large.

Has anyone had this and know how to solve it? Its only started happening today.

Ive done a complete de bug on my Mac and its still happening.

Thanks,

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  • davester
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    what is the attachment file name?
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  • davb
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    You could try zipping the docs into a single zipfile and attach that.
  • Lil306
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    Benson wrote: »
    Im having a problem when sending attachments, they are only word documents but the person on the other end is receiving the attachments and then an internet looking attachment for each word attachment i send.

    If the recipient has a hotmail account it is blocking the email getting through as its making the email so large.

    Has anyone had this and know how to solve it? Its only started happening today.

    Ive done a complete de bug on my Mac and its still happening.

    Thanks,

    Is the attachment winmail.dat by any chance ?

    If it's this, from my experience winmail.dat is usually caused by incompatibilities between the email code (HTML, Plain Text, etc). One option I've been suggested is to change the format. Another option someone informed me it's just the signature blocks.
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  • davester
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    Lil306 wrote: »
    Is the attachment winmail.dat by any chance ?

    If it's this, from my experience winmail.dat is usually caused by incompatibilities between the email code (HTML, Plain Text, etc). One option I've been suggested is to change the format. Another option someone informed me it's just the signature blocks.

    That was my thinking, but he did say these emails are too large.
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  • Benson
    Benson Posts: 402 Forumite
    They are called ATT then a lot of numbers.htm
  • Basil1234
    Basil1234 Posts: 1,146 Forumite
    dont know why you just use winrar rar them up then any junk filters etc cannot see what is inside
  • Lil306
    Lil306 Posts: 1,692
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    I'm wondering if the ATT is just the signature or pictures inside the file. They could be large images being added to the .DOCs. How big are we talking for emails
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