EML file

[radar]

When I receive a PDF file from one particular supplier and try and forward it to another family member it changes it to a EML format which he cannot view. Why and how to stop it happening?

 

[J B]

Hmm
Don't know why as we don't know how you read your emails.
Webmail or a program on your PC?
How do you read your PDF's? Acrobat? Edge? or another program?
If you can open the pdf, could you email it from there rather than using your email program?

 

[steveR]

When I receive a PDF file from one particular supplier and try and forward it to another family member it changes it to a EML format which he cannot view. Why and how to stop it happening?

EML files can be a PITA at times. I use Thunderbird, and it won't open them! Happily, I run two email progs, and can read them from the other program!

On your problem, I would suggest saving the individual pdf file, and then emailing the family member and send the pdf as an attachment.

 

[radar]

Hmm
Don't know why as we don't know how you read your emails.
Webmail or a program on your PC?
How do you read your PDF's? Acrobat? Edge? or another program?
If you can open the pdf, could you email it from there rather than using your email program?

Always read emails on BT web mail before I download them anyway (sort the dross out). From my home email I can access the farms emails and if needed, forward them on. Always worked by clicking forward and clicking "online". Now I get the following message "Sorry your email could not be delivered due to content policy reasons. Please check your message content for URLs, content and subject matter that could be construed as Malware, Spam or Phishing before retrying. (6-1-1-1) ID (5ED9B66122D3AACD) [Err code: 553]". If I click "attachment" it sends as an EML rather than PDF. I repeat seems to only happen with one source of email (Yorkshire Farmers). Is it me or the way they send them?
But yes I could open the file and send as an attachment.

 

[sjt01]

Always read emails on BT web mail before I download them anyway (sort the dross out). From my home email I can access the farms emails and if needed, forward them on. Always worked by clicking forward and clicking "online". Now I get the following message "Sorry your email could not be delivered due to content policy reasons. Please check your message content for URLs, content and subject matter that could be construed as Malware, Spam or Phishing before retrying. (6-1-1-1) ID (5ED9B66122D3AACD) [Err code: 553]". If I click "attachment" it sends as an EML rather than PDF. I repeat seems to only happen with one source of email (Yorkshire Farmers). Is it me or the way they send them?
But yes I could open the file and send as an attachment.

Pdfs from Kite end up in Thunderbird as Winmail.dat, but are OK online. Our email provider says this is due to a wrong setting in Kite's Outlook somewhere

 

[steveR]

Pdfs from Kite end up in Thunderbird as Winmail.dat, but are OK online. Our email provider says this is due to a wrong setting in Kite's Outlook somewhere

My Solicitor has the same issue I suspect.... However, his Accounts Dept send bills as a pukka pdf.... No avoiding them!

 

[zero]

I usually end up downloading the pdf then forwarding it with whatsapp. Bit of a ball ache but its still a pdf when it gets there.

 

[radar]

Whatever my original issue was it has resolved itself - suspect the sender adjusted something and now arrive as a PDF.