winmail file

[P]

I have someone trying to send me a photo. When I recieve
the file it is named winmail and I canot open it with
anything. If I open it as a text file it just looks like
a lot of charecters. They tell me that they send to other
people without any problems. Can anyone give me some help
on this?

Thanks

 

[John Inzer]

I have someone trying to send me a photo. When I recieve
the file it is named winmail and I canot open it with
anything. If I open it as a text file it just looks like
a lot of charecters. They tell me that they send to other
people without any problems. Can anyone give me some help
on this?

Thanks

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Maybe this KB article will be useful:

(278061) Attachments in a RTF Message
Are Received As Winmail.dat Attachments
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=278061


More info from a discussion group...there's a
download there that may solve your problem but
I have not tried it...

If you decide try it...let us know if it works:

..dat files in e-mail
http://tinyurl.com/2xsbr
--

John Inzer
Picture It! MVP
return e-mail disabled

Picture It! Support Center
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=pic

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP DTS]]

You need a decoder program to read a WINMAIL.DAT file, you can get one here:

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/decoders.htm
Decoder Tools

To eliminate that attachment in the future, tell the sender he needs to
reconfigure his Outlook 97/98/2000/2002/2003 or Windows Messaging email
client (the ONLY email clients that can generate a WINMAIL.DAT attachment)
to use either Plain Text or HTML for a default message format instead of
Rich Text Format (RTF). In general RTF should NEVER be used for Internet
mail because it screws up EVERY other email client out there; they'll either
get a WINMAIL.DAT file as you did or get no attachment at all:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=287720
OL2002: Attachments Are Not Visible to Some Recipients When You Use TNEF
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290809
OL2002: How Message Formats Affect Internet Mail
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=197064
OL2000: (CW) Winmail.dat Attachments Included in Received Messages
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224817
OL2000: Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF) Basics

Hal
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