Attachments are large files that are usually too big or complex for an email message. Instead, they are encoded into a format that may be transmitted across the Internet. When they arrive at their destination, the code is put back together so that the file is visible in its original format. Standard email programs like Netscape Mail and Eudora Light use MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Encoding) to encode attachments.

If an email has an attachment, a paperclip icon will appear to the left of the subject line. You will not be able to view the attachment from your phone.

AOL users need to be aware that long e-mails (more than the text of a printed page) will be turned into .mim (mime) files by the gnomes at AOL. This makes the file almost completely inaccessible (for all practical and ease of use purposes) to others! AOL users should create word processor files for larger communications in .txt or rft format and use the "Attach" command in the AOL Mail software. AOL users beware! (You may have discovered this already, but it bears repeating.

Please note that in order to download and view attachments from your handheld, you must have the appropriate viewer installed. File viewers may be obtained from www.verizonwireless.com/pda. Press the Applications Launcher (the house) key until the word "All" appears in the upper-right corner of the display screen. In the email message, locate the Att: (attachment) field that can be found in the message header (located at the top of the email message).

Attachments allow you to send photos, documents, in fact any file that you have on your computer over the Internet via email. For tips and tricks to sending and opening attachments visit Netscape (then click on Communicator Help), Internet Explorer, Eudora, or the documentation for your email program.

Yes, you can send files as external attachments that a user can click on (multipart/mixed format), and/or as inline images (multipart/related format). You can write them in memory or read them from disk.

Yes, documents can be sent out of Business Collaborator as attachments to email messages. In most cases, documents would be shared by placing them in a Business Collaborator folder but it may occasionally be necessary to send documents as attachments. To attach a document to an email message, simply select the document and click on "Attach". This will start an email message with the document already attached, ready for you to send.

Make sure that you first mark the mail for deletion, then remove it from the server using an "expunge" operation. Some email programs refer to the expunge operation as "compressing folders." Netscape Messenger keeps the downloaded headers of received email messages in cache files, which can become corrupted. Here's where the files are located: On a Unity Windows workstation, they have the ".snm" extension and are stored in the "M:\Settings\Netscape\ImapMail" directory.

On some viewing/downloading forums attachments may be limited to certain users or groups. To view/download attachments you may need special authorisation, only the forum moderator and board admin can grant this access, you should contact them.