Emails using HTML received as Winmail.dat !!

[crossroads]

Using Outlook 2002, and always use HTML format - Suddenly last week my sent
Word attachments were being received as Winmail.dat files. My setting under
Outlook's Internet options are checked for "convert to HTML". IfI convert
the Word files to PDF then send, they're received as is.

I've seen plenty of postings about RTF formats converting in Outlook to
Winmail but nothing yet about problems with HTML. The problem persists
whether or not I have Word selected as Editor. This happened suddenly late
last week. I have no Outlook add-ons. I even changed to Plain text as a
trial and they were received as winmail.dat as well.

I've checked and unchecked Outlook settings, restarted, scanned for viruses,
run a registry doctor, rebooted but no joy. Maybe Ms Palin can help...I feel
she's watching!

Use Windows SP3

 

[Vince Averello]

Is everyone receiving them that way or just certain people?

 

[crossroads]

Each of the 3 I emailed Word files to on Friday which is when this started
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phil b
australia

Is everyone receiving them that way or just certain people?

 

[Vince Averello]

Dumb question for you... did anything happen on Friday or before? Settings
change or patch install?

 

[crossroads]

No, nothing unusual occurred - no updates or patches. Yesterday (Monday) I
undertook "detect and repair" again while Word was open as well as Outlook
and re-ran a registry "fixer" called Registry Mechanic. Then I rebooted and
so far the problem hasn't repeated. Maybe what I did was a lucky fix to a
weird problem. Fingers crossed!