mime attachment

GacheGracie,

The iPhone can read many, if not most MIME attachment formats. What format is the attached file in?

Any picture, HTML email, etc you receive on your iPhone uses MIME or MIME attachments.

Hope this helps,

Nathan C.

I get the mime attachment a lot - It appears that when there are several pictures attached to an e-mail sometimes it works and sometimes it comes as a mime attachment. It appears that there is a size or memory issue that when I have too many pictures attached then the iPhone brings it thru as a mime.
Sorry - I can't give an answer -

The biggest culprit is if the person sending is using MS Exchange/Outlook and has their mail format set to Rich Text Format. MS has this as an option but really doesn't meet true email standards and while many mail programs added the ability to accept them, sending RTF really isn't a accepted standard in the eyes of those that set web standards thus if a mail client doesn't read them right the email client cannot be blamed.

Bryam Christensen,

If the images are attached as images they should work. If the attachment has the picutures embedded in a .eml message that is then attached or forwarded they may not work.

Hope this helps,

Nathan C.

You cannot. It means along the way to you it got encoded to mime. As mentioned, I only see this when the person sending is sending email using the RTF format setting in Outlook.

DaVBMan,

MIME itself is no the problem. Every email attachment is encoded with MIME. However, some of the formats that Microsoft email clients put within MIME are not readable on other products.

This article has a link to Microsoft's own kbase about the issue:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306298

Hope this helps,

Nathan C.