On 16/05/2005, at 4:22 PM, David Paul wrote:
Hi
For the last month each time three people send me emails with word
attachments the attachments arrive as winmail.dat files that I can
not open or access. This is usually when the sender sends to a
group and is usually resolved (they arrive as word documents) when
the sender resends directly to me.
I am using a G4 1.67GHz PB, MacOS 10.3.8 Mac office 2004 and Mail
1.3.9.
Any thoughts to overcome this would be appreciated.
Regards
Dave
Hi Dave,
TNEF's Enough will open a winmail. dat file.
<http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/email_chat/tnefsenough.html>
TNEF’s Enough allows Macs to read and extract files from Microsoft
TNEF stream files. The files are usually received by SMTP based e-
mail programs from Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook users.
The SMTP based e-mail program will usually receive either a MIME
attachment named “winmail.dat” or a MIME attachment with the type
“application/ms-tnef.”
The file is a rich text (or MAPI) message that is sent from Outlook
to Exchange. When Exchange sends the message to an outside server it
writes the MAPI message as a MIME attachment. The unfortunate side
effect of this plan is if the Outlook user has someone in their
address book as a person who can receive “Rich Text” then the user
will receive the TNEF file whether the user uses Outlook or not.
Cheers,
Ronni
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