Re: How to view a winmail.dat file?

From: mmmmark (mdneely_at__EXTRA_vcsd.com)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:31:33 -0600

I guess I will top post on this thread since that was the precedent...

Outlook 2003 now has a preference to convert rich text to html when sending
to "internet" recipients, i.e. those outside the exchange server.

Using rich text _can_ be preferable to html since it will not display
formatting tags as html will (for those wishing to receive plain text).
Having said that, plain text is probably the best of all, although html mail
is becoming much more accepted in recent years.

Most of these winmail.dat problems are caused by the sender using a feature
of Outlook that lets Word be the embedded email editor, which results in
rich text emails.

-Mark

"Michel Bintener" <m_bintener@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:BE429F23.61C9%m_bintener@hotmail.com...
> A .dat file is actually not a picture format. Have a look at the following
> excerpt from the Entourage MVPS site
> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/attachments.html>:
>
> > 7) What are winmail.dat files?
> >
> > Winmail.dat and/or application/ms-tnef files are sent by Windows users
of
> > Outlook or Exchange who have their mail clients set up to use ORTF¹
instead of
> > plain text or HTML.
> >
> > Usually they only contain a styled text version of the message you have
just
> > read in plain text, but they can contain encoded attachments that you
can¹t
> > usually get to.
> >
> > TNEF¹s Enough, by Josh Jacob, allows you to extract and read these files
and
> > attachments.
> >
> > Better still, contact your correspondent and ask them to reset their
mail
> > format from the (MS proprietary) "Rich Text" to either "Plain Text" or
"HTML.
> > If they have you in their Outlook Address Book they can make a setting
to
> > always send you Plain Text automatically.
>
> Michel
>
>
> On 23.02.05 15:57, in article
> REMOVEarkay-AFB32E.09572323022005@newssvr12-ext.news.prodigy.com, "aRKay"
> <REMOVEarkay@qsl.net> wrote:
>
> > I have received several messages from PC Outlook users that come with a
> > winmail.dat file attached. Entourage seems to be brain dead on the .dat
> > file and PC outlook users claim it is a standard picture format.
> >
> > How do you view a .dat file with Entourage 2004?
>

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