How do I open an email in MIME format
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
What do you want to do that you cannot do?
All email is composed of a series of mime attachments. The familiar email you see is really a mime file. An email client decomposes the email data stream and presents the data to you.
So, what mime are you receiving that your email client doesn't handle?
Robert
Hi Charles, most of my emails open okay and I can read the content, but some emails appear in an MIME format that I cannot read. Doesn't happen all the time but unable to read when it happens. I have just noticed that if I just read the email without opening it it is okay, but when I double-click to open the email that is when I am presented with the gibberish of the MIME format.
Hope you can help.
Regards
Tony
Hello Tony,
All of your emails are in MIME format. It sounds like some of them have become corrupted. This is usually caused by overzealous anti-virus filters on e-mail servers. Unfortunately, there is little you can do about it.
Are you getting the infamous microsoft windat file?
It may be a problem with your email client. What do you see when you look at the email in a web browser, if possible? Try another email client like thunderbird.
Call isp and complain. See if they know of the problem. Will pin down where things are going amiss.
Ask isp if there is a setting to turn of email filtering on server.
Thanks. Fortunately it is very infrequent.
How to open a MIME format email
