Cannot Accept/Decline invitations sent from Windows user ...

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Gordon Werner

Hi there ...

Using Entourage 2004 on my Mac, I am now able to create meetings nad
invite windows users ... however ... if they respond to me, or invite me to a
meeting, all I get is a winmail.dat attachment along with some text about
the meeting.

I do not see the info bar where I can accept or decline.

Do I have somthing misset? or perhaps do my Windows friends?

Thanks in advance

Gordon
 
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Dave Cortright

Hi there ...

Using Entourage 2004 on my Mac, I am now able to create meetings nad
invite windows users ... however ... if they respond to me, or invite me to a
meeting, all I get is a winmail.dat attachment along with some text about
the meeting.

I do not see the info bar where I can accept or decline.

Do I have somthing misset? or perhaps do my Windows friends?

Thanks in advance

Gordon
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http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/attachments.html#att7
 
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Barry Wainwright

Hi there ...

Using Entourage 2004 on my Mac, I am now able to create meetings nad
invite windows users ... however ... if they respond to me, or invite me to a
meeting, all I get is a winmail.dat attachment along with some text about
the meeting.

I do not see the info bar where I can accept or decline.

Do I have somthing misset? or perhaps do my Windows friends?

Thanks in advance

Gordon
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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.

Fortunately, there is an excellent little application that lets you read
these files and extract the attachments, called ³TNEF¹s Enough², by Josh
Jacob. Here¹s a link that should let you find it on VersionTracker:

<http://www.versiontracker.com/mp/new_search.m?productDB=mac&mode=Quick&OS_F
ilter=MacOSX&search=tnef& ;x=14&y=8

Better still, contact you correspondent and ask them to reset their mail
client prefs to use plain text, or at worst, HTML.
 
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