problems sending images with Outlook

[Erik]

Recently I have had problems when trying to send mail with an image (either
pasted into message form or attached).
The mail is sent with no error messages.
In the "Sent files" folder the mail and image appear normal.
The recipient, however, instead of the image gets an attachment
"winmail.dat" which cannot open.


Thank you for any suggestions
Erik

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

you are using RTF formatted message - switch to plain text or HTML. Tools,
Options, Mail format.

 

[Erik]

To Christian Goeller and Diane Poremsky

Thank you very much for your help.
But why does Outlook behave like this?
Is only image files converted to a seemingly useless "winmail.dat"?
Should the sender not have a warning about what happens to the image.

Thank you
Erik

 

[Brian Tillman]

To Christian Goeller and Diane Poremsky

Thank you very much for your help.
But why does Outlook behave like this?
Is only image files converted to a seemingly useless "winmail.dat"?
Should the sender not have a warning about what happens to the image.

Outlook's Rich Text Format is a format only it understands. However, it's
also the format is wants to use by default. Outlook's assumption is that it
will be exchanging data with other instances of Outlook and you must tell it
differently from the outset.