recevied attachments are not in word but in windat files?

[Guest]

Can anyone help me. When i send an attachment to some people, they recive the
attachment in word. However with other users the file appears as a
winmail.dat file. I have just sent myself an email to my hotmail account and
the same thing happens?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Make sure that your message format is not rich text. Use HTML or plain text instead.

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and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Stop using Outlook Rich Text Format and use Plain Text instead.
Tools->options->mail format.

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After furious head scratching, matvise asked:

| Can anyone help me. When i send an attachment to some people, they
| recive the attachment in word. However with other users the file
| appears as a winmail.dat file. I have just sent myself an email to my
| hotmail account and the same thing happens?

 

[mpvjules]

Another tip: zip the attachments and don't use a . in the filename.

 

[bruno]

To read winmail.dat files use this freeware application:

http://www.kopf.com.br/winmail