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Windows Live Mail Receives Message with Invisible Attachment

by Aug 21, 2011 9:00AM PDT

My choir director is sending me email messages from Outlook with attached files having the suffix WMA. Others using various email clients have no problem receiving these attachments. When the message arrives in my Windows Live Mail account there is no paperclip icon indicating an attachment, so there is no way for me to obtain the WMA files. The size of the message indicates that the attachment must be present (e.g. the size of a recent message was 3167KB). Why is the attachment indicator missing, and is there a way for me to extract the attachment from the message? Is the problem caused by something the sender is doing?

--Jim--

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Been an issue for far too long.
by Forum moderator Aug 21, 2011 9:34AM PDT
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I Had the Answer All the Time (from six years ago!)
by Aug 21, 2011 12:09PM PDT

Turns out I had this same problem six years ago with messages sent to me with Excel files attached, except that no attachment was obvious. I just located some notes I wrote at that time. There's a handy program called WMDecode that can be used to extract the hidden attachments. Details are at www.biblet.com. According to info at that website, it seems that I am "receiving a message from a user with Microsoft Outlook who has sent me a message in Microsoft Outlook RTF format."

--Jim--

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