Email transfer can be done as easily as copying a file, but opening the email file well, it’s not that simple. Office emails are normally handled in Outlook on Windows Live Mail, while for Mac, you have a different email system by Apple, that caters to a different email format.

Introduction With the explosion of the Internet, data files are often sent between Macintosh and PC computers as attachments to email messages. In such a case, the problem for the PC users receiving a file is that the very nature of the file is hard to know, in particular when the sender, on the Macintosh, didn't bother to add an extension to the file name (.DOC for a Word file, etc.). More, the default encoding scheme used by many mail programs on the Macintosh is often, or AppleSingle / AppleDouble (see our on those standards for more information; see also our page on the for more information) and is not always correctly handled by e-mail client software packages on the PC. Presentation of the Program MacMail offers some help and relief in such situations. Here is a snapshot of the program. MacMail Offers Two Working Modes: In Manual Mode, the user selects (button “Browse for Files”) the files to be examined, which are then listed in the listbox.

Depending on the nature of the file, the program proposes several treatments (see below). In Automatic Mode, the program monitors a folder of the computer (generally the folder where the mail program stores the e-mail attachments) and automatically lists in the left listbox all newly created files. The user is informed of the arrival of those files and can decide which treatment must be applied. Manual Mode In the Manual Mode, the users selects the files to be examined (button “Browse for Files”) on the hard disk(s) of the computer. It is possible to select several files. The files are then listed in the left part.

If you highlight a file in this list, the program displays its properties in the upper right box. In the example above, the file is named “Ah le beau nom long.hqx” on the PC, but its real Macintosh name is just 'test', its signature is 'APPLFP98', which means that this is a program (APPL), the data fork is 312,573 bytes, the resource fork 10,960 bytes.

In the box below (titled 'Select the treatment'), the user may select several treatments: - Extraction of the File Content (Data fork, Resource fork, or both of them) - Conversion to MacBinary - Addition of an extension to the file name. Extraction of the File Contents This option is available for BinHex, AppleSingle and AppleDouble files.

Macintosh files are made of two. You may select to extract the data fork, the resource fork, or both of them.

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The first option (data fork, default option) is what is needed most of the time, for an example with text files, graphic files, and so on. The two other options will only interest techies. Conversion to MacBinary This option can be useful if you want to reinstall the file onto a Macintosh disk thereafter. The standard allows to put in a single file (so-called container) both forks composing the original Macintosh file, plus some additional information.