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Operating Systems :: Windows :: email problem winmail.dat
By: FiatLink Belgium  Date: 25/11/2005 09:03:40  English  Points: 20 Status: Answered
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Hello,
Some of my correspondents complain about being unable to read the attachments of my emails... I'm not doing anything strange... They talk to me about a "winmail.dat" file that I NEVER attached !

What's going on ?
By: VGR Date: 25/11/2005 09:11:49 English  Type : Answer
Well, easy question, fast answer ;-))

You may look at this page.

The problem is that you're using the worst email client ever, named "Outlook". It doesn't play the email game by the rules and so you end up in a situation where you don't communicate (the purpose of seding emails) but merely annoy your correspondents.

The solution is to tell Outlook - by default it is badly configured, as is all Windows ;-) - to send "normal" emails. The safest option is "plain text".

The best option is to download Eudora ;-)
It's cheap (either free+ads or cheap for no ads), will recover all your Outlook settings, and comes with a powerful anti-spam feature.

The main problem is that when reading "Microsoft Outlook RTF format" you may believe Outlook will generate an RTF document, a "standard" that anyone program can read. Alas, it's untrue ;-) It will be a format called "TNEF" that is Merdu$oft-proprietary.

So either change your (Outlook's) bad habits for sending emails or make your correspondents download, and buy or renew periodically, the program called WMDecode.

Regards

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