Alas, TNEF's Enough just gives me an ERROR! I will alert my client about making the change to his Outlook client for me, and I'm sure he'll be fine about that, but in the short run it looks like I'll be tearing open this winmail.dat with BBEdit and recovering the bits and pieces I need.
Thanks for the info! -Bill Cameron > From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:42:35 -0800 > To: Entourage Mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: What is "winmail.dat"? > > The issue is a little complicated by the fact that 95% of the time the > winmail.dat files contain nothing but the rich text version of the message - > no genuine attachments at all. Thus senders get very confused when you ask > them to resend the attachments - there weren't any. But in the other 5%, > like here, the same winmail.dat will also contain the real attachments too. > > Most of the time, the Outlook sender doesn't even know what format he's > sending in - RTF is the default. They usually don't want to change their > default. He or she can set individual users (like you, if you ask) in their > Address Book to be sent plain text, but not HTML. (Ask for that.) If they > are sending from work with Outlook in corporate mode, the Exchange Server > there can remove the winmail.dat business as the message leaves, I'm told, > but it doesn't often seem to be set that way. > > > -- > Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
