Lost in LOS Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) Something funny with my mail. When I open this email on my iPhone it shows a link to a youtube video, [first picture], I click on it and it opens and shows youtube videl. No problem When i open gmail on my imac and open this email this is what I get second pic. [it only shows it as 5K] View as text and download.. If I click on view as text, I get pages of text and if I search carefully there is a link to youtube in there . If I click on download it asks what to open with. I have tried several VLC app among them. Nothing opens it. This happens often with only some of my mail. what is the problem fix? thanks in advance Edited January 16, 2012 by Lost in LOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrel Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Use IMAP. This will work properly even on a Mac (and that's saying something). Webmail is a disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jybkk Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 The video is not in the email. it's jsut a link. What seems to have happened is that the mail client the sender used to forward this has embedded the original messagewithout saying what type of attachement it was and that was not understood by gmail. Some older or corporate clients do like that. Your iPhone managed to display it because it chose to assume it was an email. It then just cleaned up all the "email" data in the attachement and showed you the body of the message (which you managed to find manually). Using a desktop client on your computer might help... But I must say I'm surprised to hear this happens often to you. I think I got that once when someone sent me an email FW:FW:FW:FW: from their company's horrible Lotus Notes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost in LOS Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 usually from the same guy The video is not in the email. it's jsut a link. What seems to have happened is that the mail client the sender used to forward this has embedded the original messagewithout saying what type of attachement it was and that was not understood by gmail. Some older or corporate clients do like that. Your iPhone managed to display it because it chose to assume it was an email. It then just cleaned up all the "email" data in the attachement and showed you the body of the message (which you managed to find manually). Using a desktop client on your computer might help... But I must say I'm surprised to hear this happens often to you. I think I got that once when someone sent me an email FW:FW:FW:FW: from their company's horrible Lotus Notes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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