Re: Winmail.dat

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From: Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] (MillyS_at_donteventhinkaboutmailingmemvps.org)
Date: 05/01/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:56:33 -0700

Actually, Eudora uses it as well.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Gordon asked:

| <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| news:6ba701c42eca$2a4ce350$a001280a@phx.gbl...
||
||| -----Original Message-----
||| On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:55:12 -0700, "Joe"
||| <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
|||
|||| I am using Windows 2000 Professional and Office 2000
|||| Premium.
|||| When sending word.doc file attachments, the recipiant
|||| complains that he/she/they receive a file attachment
|||| called "winmail.dat" and that they cannot open. When the
|||| email and attachment is returned to me in full - even I
|||| cannot open it.
|||| What do I have to do to ensure that this stops from
|||| happening again?
|||
||| Send your email messages in plain text format instead of
|| Rich Text Format
||| (RTF)
|||
||| See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
|| us;138053
||| ..
|||
||| --
||| Robert B. Clark (email ROT13'ed)
||| Visit ClarkWehyr Enterprises On-Line at
||| http://www.3clarks.com/ClarkWehyr/ .
||
|| Robert,
||
|| Thanks for the information, I have tried this and yes it
|| works, however, I wish to use the tool bar of "Rich Text
|| Format". Is there no other way to resolve this issue?
||
|| Thanks and Regards
|| Joe
||
|
| No there's not, because what is happening is that the recipients who
| are seeing the winmail.dat attachment are not using Outlook. Only
| Outlook users can read RTF mail - it's a Microsoft standard which is
| not used by non-Microsoft mail clients.

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