attachments | winmail.dat

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Brent Ross

Can anyone tell me why so often I receive attachments from Windows users
that arrive in the form of winmail.dat files? What can the Windows user do
or what can I do with settings to ensure that this does not continue to
happen? I¹ve had it happen with all kinds of file types (Word, jpg, ppt,
etc)
 
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Diane Ross

Can anyone tell me why so often I receive attachments from Windows users that
arrive in the form of winmail.dat files? What can the Windows user do or what
can I do with settings to ensure that this does not continue to happen? I¹ve
had it happen with all kinds of file types (Word, jpg, ppt, etc)
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This is FAQ #81) What are winmail.dat files?

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/faqs.html#anchor-81>

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 ŒRTF¹ 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.
 
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