Distribution list attachment

[Mark]

When I receive a distribution list as an attachment in an
email message I can't move it to my contacts folder. When
I follow the instructions from MS and click the attachment
and drag it to the contacts folder I get the "contact"
dialogue box opening up with the info for the person that
sent me the email with the distribution list attached. I
have tried several times always with the same result. When
I try to open the attached distribution list from within
the received email it opens a window that has the from and
to and subject info from the email with a blank message
window. Don't know what we're doing wrong with the send or
the receive but would appreciate any help.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Sounds like the sender needs to resend the DL as an attachment to a
rich-text format message and your recipient address marked for rich text.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If this is a contact in your Contact folder, open their record, then
double-click the underlined email address. If it's an Internet contact,
you'll see choices for the sending format.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you set a person's address for plain text, Outlook should send plain text
only and an Outlook item attachment, like a DL, will get mangled. If you got
it to work, fine -- go worry about something else. But for best results when
sending Outlook items to other Outlook users, set the person's address
format to rich-text.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

It depends on the combination of recipient setting and mail message format
setting and what the mail server might do to the message after you send it.
Plain text should always come out as plain text, though.

If you're curious, you can conduct your own tests through your own server.
It's good to receive the tests with an account that you can access with
Outlook Express, so you can look at the full message source of the message.
HINT: Any winmail.dat file is the rich-text content.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Great information Sue. Thanks for all your help.

It depends on the combination of recipient setting and mail message format
setting and what the mail server might do to the message after you send it.
Plain text should always come out as plain text, though.

If you're curious, you can conduct your own tests through your own server.
It's good to receive the tests with an account that you can access with
Outlook Express, so you can look at the full message source of the message.
HINT: Any winmail.dat file is the rich-text content.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers