>I have this customer who insist on using whatever creates these >WinMail.dat files. Every mail is 132 KB minimum. Even one word >comes out as 132 KB. Is there some way I can get them to turn >something off to reduce the size of these things...
This is another lovely MS thing. Its MS Exchange's way of dealing with formatted emails (I guess plain text isn't good enough, and HTML wasn't a "standard" back when MS thought this up). To turn it off, have them go into their copy of Outlook or Outlook Express (whichever they are using), go to the Tools menu, choose Options. Then look for the Mail Format or Send tab. There should be an option on that tab for sending either plain text (try to talk them into that) or HTML email. As long as they don't select Rich Text Format they should be fine. This is off memory, so the locations and names of the options might be slightly different (I'm not an Outlook user, so this is memory of a tech note that I read, my directions are actually twice removed from reality now). Or, you could try to convince your friend that Outlook and Outlook Express are festering lumps of evil, and they should simply change to something like Eudora or any of the other dozens of mail clients that DON'T spew viri around the internet. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
