Word attachments from Mac

hcl-bot · September 16, 2009, 5:45pm

Several users are reporting that when they send MS-Word files as attachments in Notes, the recipients (non-Notes PCs) are unable to open them, and some recipients have reported the files have an .hqx appended to them. In a previous thread, it was suggested this was easily fixed by adding to notes preferences an entry for pcfriendly_attachments=1 but my users are having this problem even with that entry present. Location documents have outbound attachment encoding method set to BinHex 4.0 in the advanced MIME settings.

Users have Office 2008 with current service packs and Notes 8.5FP1. This problem was present with 8.5 before FP1, but I think it is specific to Office 2008 (whether or not the file is a .doc or .docx). Domino is running 8.5FP1 under RedHat.

Any suggestions on how to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated.

hcl-bot · September 16, 2009, 7:58pm

Subject: This is exactly what binhex does…

However, there is really no need to use it anymore. We should probably remove binhex from the product entirely.

Anyway, you will get better results by using Base64 and AppleDouble encoding.

hcl-bot · September 21, 2009, 3:01pm

Subject: Changing to AppleDouble Encoding fixed the problem

Thanks Chris, changing from BinHex to AppleDouble Encoding seems to have fixed the problem. (I’m sure when I was looking around the web for a solution that I found a suggestion from someone that it ought to be BinHex, which it was defaulting to.)