File attachment goes as winmail.dat

[Guest]

Most of my file attachment sent through outlook 2000, irrespective of their
fomat are being received by other party as winmail.dat file.

If the receipient receives the file in yahoo mail and he saves the files in
his disk and it is saving as original format as was sent, but when the
recpient receives this in his outlook express then it is not opening. The
attachment always dispalys winmail.dat.

I tried all means of attaching the file like insert as attachment, insert
as text, insert or insert as shortcut, but end result is same.

 

[SgtRich]

Most of my file attachment sent through outlook 2000, irrespective of their
fomat are being received by other party as winmail.dat file.

If the receipient receives the file in yahoo mail and he saves the files in
his disk and it is saving as original format as was sent, but when the
recpient receives this in his outlook express then it is not opening. The
attachment always dispalys winmail.dat.

I tried all means of attaching the file like insert as attachment, insert
as text, insert or insert as shortcut, but end result is same.

You are sending your messages in rich text format. Try sending in
plain text or HTML formats.

 

[Guest]

Thank you so much for letting me know that if I sent my winmail.dat file
through my yahoo e-mail I was able to open it....I struggled with this for 3
days until I saw your solution..........this was a very important legal
document I was trying to retrieve and couldn't do it through my Outlook
express mail system..thanks a million. Bev

 

[Guest]

When pdf's disapear after you send them or someone receives it as a
winmail.dat file your email account setup for sending format is NOT the only
place you have to turn off Rich Text Format for sending emails. You must
also change the rich text format in the email address properties in your
address book for the person you are sending to. double click on the email
address to bring up the email address properties and change it to let outlook
decide. The address book properties over ride what you choose in your email
account set up.
RobRose