Outlook XP SP3 and Winmail.dat problem

[Davide]

Hi,
any news about RTF editor and Winmail.dat attachment files ?

The problem is that if you use RTF or WORD to write emails and you attach
some file, the receiver has a Winmail.dat file instead of the original file
attached.

thanks regards Davide

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

This is normal since RTF is a proprietary format for Microsoft Outlook.
Internet Email programs like Pine, Outlook Express, Eudora, The Bat!, .etc
can't unwrap the binary stream in order to display the message as it was
original formatted. Best option is to switch your message format to plain
text or html and consider disabling Word 2002 as your e-mail editor.

/neo

ps - attachments added to a rtf message are considered part of the body and
will be wrapped into that binary stream called winmail.dat.