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winmail.dat -- unable to prevent
When I send email from Outlook 2000 (10.6838.6845)SP3 on XP,
there is always a winmail.dat attachment. All the "fixes" for this I have been able to find say set the default message format to plain text (or html). I have done that but bloody Outlook still adds the attachment (and puts any other real attachments into it making them completely inaccessible to most recipients.) The recipients are not in my Outlook Contacts or Address Book so the format is not being overridden that way (and a look at Properties in the compose window lists the messages as "plain text".) How do I fix this????? |
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winmail.dat -- unable to prevent
"Stuart McGraw" wrote in message
... When I send email from Outlook 2000 (10.6838.6845)SP3 on XP, there is always a winmail.dat attachment. All the "fixes" for this I have been able to find say set the default message format to plain text (or html). I have done that but bloody Outlook still adds the attachment (and puts any other real attachments into it making them completely inaccessible to most recipients.) The recipients are not in my Outlook Contacts or Address Book so the format is not being overridden that way (and a look at Properties in the compose window lists the messages as "plain text".) What type of account? Corporate/Workgroup mode it IMO mode? See if any of these helps: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197064 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138053/ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196784/ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318699 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269186 -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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winmail.dat -- unable to prevent
On 10/12/2009 09:29 AM, Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
"Stuart McGraw" wrote in message ... When I send email from Outlook 2000 (10.6838.6845)SP3 on XP, there is always a winmail.dat attachment. All the "fixes" for this I have been able to find say set the default message format to plain text (or html). I have done that but bloody Outlook still adds the attachment (and puts any other real attachments into it making them completely inaccessible to most recipients.) The recipients are not in my Outlook Contacts or Address Book so the format is not being overridden that way (and a look at Properties in the compose window lists the messages as "plain text".) What type of account? Corporate/Workgroup mode it IMO mode? See if any of these helps: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197064 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138053/ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196784/ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318699 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269186 Thanks. Unfortunately I gave bad info. I am having the problem with Outlook 2002 (Office XP) in IMO mode. I also failed to mention (because I didn't realize it was relevant) that I create messages and save them to an IMAP drafts folder. I found the following discouraging KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280857 that says there is no fix -- any change to a message on an IMAP server will generate a winmail.dat attachment. The suggested "workaround" is to "ignore" the winmail.dat file. Unfortunately it seems that Outlook put image attachments (in html formatted email) into the winmail.dat (*1) file so that is not a very workable workaround, even if I were willing to spew unreadable attachments to my mail recipients. Anyway the answer for me seems to be that Outlook XP is virtually unusable. Good job Microsoft! (*1) I think that was the behavior I saw but haven't bothered to confirm it. |
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winmail.dat -- unable to prevent
"Stuart McGraw" wrote in message
... Thanks. Unfortunately I gave bad info. I am having the problem with Outlook 2002 (Office XP) in IMO mode. There is no IMO mode in Outlook 2002. That went away after Outlook 2000. Youre version number does indicate you're using Outlook 2002 instead of Outlook 2000, though, and I didn't pick that up originally. I also failed to mention (because I didn't realize it was relevant) that I create messages and save them to an IMAP drafts folder. I found the following discouraging KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280857 that says there is no fix -- any change to a message on an IMAP server will generate a winmail.dat attachment. I guess you'll have to live with it, then. Sorry. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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