Re: [MLUG] Garbled mail attachments

[Ian Scott <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mark Haidekker wrote:
> Now I know, hoewver, that I can reply asking to resend the message using 
> non-Microsoft clients. I just can't stand this attitude that "we don't need 
> to adhere to the standards, because everybody uses our products". This is 
> completely inacceptable. If somebody wants me to read their attachment they 
> better send it in a way so I can read it.

The whole winmail.dat thing is triggered by the user's Outlook client 
sending the message in RTF.  Yeah, it'd be kind of nice to have RTF 
mail, but not wrapped in some retarded file when MIME would do just 
fine.  Anyway, you can tell the offender to turn it off by unchecking 
"Microsoft Outlook Rich Text Format" in the mail format tab of the main 
options dialog and selecting Plain Text or HTML instead.  If they really 
really want to send winmail.dats to all their Outlook buddies, they can 
specify mail format on a per-message/per-recipient manner.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q241538 has some 
more info.

The Microsoft KB article also talks about how winmail.dat exposes things 
like the user's login and path (no passwords; they aren't THAT 
stupid.... right?)

Ian

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