[thelist] winmail.dat

[Norman Bunn]

At 11:35 AM 8/21/2003, you wrote:
>Occassionally I have a problem w/ email attachment. I work on a Mac &
>often when people working on PCs send me attachments I receive them with
>the winmail.dat extension & can't open them up. I've always thoiught it
>was something in the way their email was set up but don't know that for
>sure. Is there something I can do on my machine that will let me open them
>up? Or a setting on their machine? Normally I use Pine to read email but
>have even tried forwarding the email to web-based account w/ the same
>results. Any suggestions?
>
>tia
>Cheryl Amato

Cheryl,

This is a problem when email is sent from MS Outlook in Rich Text 
Format.  If the sender will change the setting to "Plain Text", then the 
attachments will show and the winmail.dat files will disappear.

Norman
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