Re: Decoding Microsoft (Outlook) Attachments

2004-12-10 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jason Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why go to all the bother of decoding the winmail.dat attachments? > Lookout can be configured to send proper attachments. I've forgotten > exactly what the steps are, because I haven't had to help anyone with > it in about 4 years. > > Most folks ar

Re: Decoding Microsoft (Outlook) Attachments

2004-12-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
Why go to all the bother of decoding the winmail.dat attachments? Lookout can be configured to send proper attachments. I've forgotten exactly what the steps are, because I haven't had to help anyone with it in about 4 years. Most folks are thankful for the help if you're polite about it.

Re: Decoding Microsoft (Outlook) Attachments

2004-12-09 Thread Jeff Smith
And, for those looking to transfer mail between Outlook and real e-mail, a utility I've used is libpst. Homepage is at: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/libpst/ It's failed on a few .pst files, mainly ones that were bad in the first place. Otherwise, I've had good luck moving mail by exporting

Re: Decoding Microsoft (Outlook) Attachments

2004-12-08 Thread Bill Sconce
Hi, Greg - My, this brings back memories! Back when our shop still used Microsoft software (but Netscape, never OutBack!) we saw this same problem. What a pain - even on a Windows system you couldn't read the attachments! There were solutions (although not from Microsoft). Here's a URL for ano

Decoding Microsoft (Outlook) Attachments

2004-12-07 Thread Greg Rundlett
Around this time of year, people share a lot of photos. Pictures of friends, family, the kids, their pets, their Christmas trees etc. The problem is that many of these people are chained to a Microsoft email empire, and thus using email software that a) writes html-formatted (or Rich Text)