False "attachment" notifications

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I need help

Why do my Outlook emails arrive in the recipients' inboxes with the
attachment icon displayed when I never sent an attachment to begin with? The
icon is displayed in the inboxes, but not on the actual email itself. I
don't want people to think I am sending an attachment when that's clearly not
the case. I've tried to research this question & I cannot find anything
similar to my problem. Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
 
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Why do my Outlook emails arrive in the recipients' inboxes with the
attachment icon displayed when I never sent an attachment to begin with? The
icon is displayed in the inboxes, but not on the actual email itself. I
don't want people to think I am sending an attachment when that's clearly not
the case. I've tried to research this question & I cannot find anything
similar to my problem. Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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We are to guess what is the file or filetype of the attachment? Might
it be a winmail.dat file?

Stop sending in RTF (rich-text format). The only e-mail client that
understands RTF is Outlook. The winmail.dat attachment is always there
when you use RTF. Outlook will hide that attachment because it knows
how to read that attachment and use the formatting info inside it. Your
e-mail clients aren't using Outlook.

http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/richtext.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278061/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830302/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290809/en-us

Other possibilities is that you add a signature to your e-mails, and
they include an embedded image. There are probably other possibilities
but you never identified WHAT was the attachment(s) that your recipients
see in your e-mails that you send them.
 
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