Outlook 2000 attachments become .dat unless sent in a reply email

[Guest]

People receive my attachments as .dat unless I send an attachment in a reply
email to them. Any suggestions? I have all the updates offered.

Thanks

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Change your message format from Rich Text to HTML or Plain Text

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[wayfarrer]

Ask your recipients if they're receiving attachments called "winmail.dat". If
so, here's what MS says about this:

---quote---
The Winmail.dat file is used to preserve formatting that the sending client
includes in the message, but is not recognized by the receiving client. In the
case of Outlook, the Winmail.dat file includes Rich Text Formatting (RTF)
instructions. This type of formatting is used with the Microsoft Outlook Rich
Text Format and when using Microsoft Word as an e-mail editor.
---end quote---

You may be replying to their e-mail in a plain text format which eliminates this
condition.

Here are a few articles on this subject:

Winmail.dat attachments are included in received messages in Outlook 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q197064

How to Prevent the Winmail.dat File from Being Sent to Internet Users
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138053/EN-US

 

[Guest]

I have started having this same problem with only one of the 5 computers we
have running Outlook and it appeared after updating it. The problem can be
prevented by switching to HTML or Plain text format, however plain text is
painful to look at and HTML wont print the attachment names in sent emails.
While I have found workarounds what baffles me is that the other computers
sending in rich text to the very same emails are not having their attachments
converted to winmail.dat. I have a feeling this is going to be a common
problem soon.