[KLUG Members] winmail.dat

[Adam Bultman]

It's caused when the sender uses RTF format for email as opposed to HTML
or plain text.  I've dealt with it before, where my co-workers are
confounded with 'what's with this winmail.dat file??"

Anyway, if you tell them to change from RTF to html or pt, the problem
goes away.

adam

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Adam Williams wrote:

>
> I use evolution for my e-mail,  and I sent and receive attachments all day
> long.  Except from *1* person,  from whom all attachments come through as
> a winmail.dat file.
>
> Questions
>
> 1 - Is there any way to pull the contents out of one of these funny little
> things?
>
> 2 - What exact setting on Outlook makes this go away?  So I can give very
> specific advise.  No I don't even have a copy of outlook, and have in fact
> *never* used it.  I've seen it though,  looks like a knock-off of
> evolution. ;)
>
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