Stupid 'winmail.dat' attachment

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Steve Bauer said:
Hi all,

If you were wondering what the .dat extension was, please look at this
website:

http://www.pchell.com/support/winmaildat.shtml

I have used the tnefsenoughs ( http://www.joshjacob.com/macdev/tnef/ )
application without much success though. The best solution is to have the
sender stop sending in rich text and start sending in plain text or html.

Hope this helps,

Pastor Steve Bauer

http://danbauer.org/~belisarivs
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Steve,

I sent the text from the http://www.pchell.com/support/winmaildat.shtml
link you provided to my brother who has been sending me the dumb
winmail.dat files. He will not change his Outlook options because he
likes to send formatted messages and the only option he could find was
to send plain text. I know this sounds a little strange but he composes
mail messages in PC MS Word and has Outlook send the formatted text.

I find it very strange that Microsoft's Entourage cannot read messages
sent by Microsoft Outlook. I think my brother is using the PC XP
package.

The odd ball application seems to be Entourage 2004 that cannot seem to
deal with formats generated by other MS products.
 
J

Joel Nelson

Steve,

I sent the text from the http://www.pchell.com/support/winmaildat.shtml
link you provided to my brother who has been sending me the dumb
winmail.dat files. He will not change his Outlook options because he
likes to send formatted messages and the only option he could find was
to send plain text. I know this sounds a little strange but he composes
mail messages in PC MS Word and has Outlook send the formatted text.

I find it very strange that Microsoft's Entourage cannot read messages
sent by Microsoft Outlook. I think my brother is using the PC XP
package.

The odd ball application seems to be Entourage 2004 that cannot seem to
deal with formats generated by other MS products.
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Entourage 2004 isn't the only program that can't open Outlook Rich Text
messages. Almost every program except for Outlook for Windows and Outlook
Express has trouble with Outlook Rich Text. Which version of Outlook does
your brother have? Outlook 98, 2000, XP/2002, and 2003 all have four
options -- plain, Outlook Rich Text, HTML, and Word. Rich Text isn't HTML
(as we know from Apple Mail, but Apple Rich Text and Outlook Rich Text
aren't compatible with each other). Unless your brother has Outlook 97 he
could use HTML or Word for composing mail and still get the formatting. Or,
he could mark in his address book that mail to you needs to be sent plain
text only. That way he could still use rich text but if he writes to you
then Outlook will make sure that message goes plain text.
 
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