turn off winmail.dat on forwarding?

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Is there a way to turn off the conversion to winmail.dat of emails that
get forwarded with attachments? I'm using Outlook 2003 with HTML as my
setting, convert to HTML, and not having Word as my editor. It only
happens when I forward email.

~Joseph
 
After reading about how Outlook works, I just finally figured out why
it does this. When Outlook receives a message it rips it apart and
stores it in its own format. So the attachements get converted to TNEF
format. When you forward a message it can't just add to the original
because it didn't store the original. It recreates the email using the
pieces stored by Outlook which are in TNEF format. This creation is
not being run though any type of conversion in Outlook, so you get the
winmail.dat file no matter what you do. So that means only a
programmer or creative hacker could fix this problem.

This is my best guess at what's happening. I could be way off, but I
think it makes sense.

~Joseph
 
No, you shouldn't get Winmail.dat on forwarding unless one of these is true:

a) The original incoming message was in RTF format and the recipient's
address is marked for RTF and Outlook is set to allow RTF on outgoing items.

b) The message uses a custom form
 
I know (a) and (b) are not the case. This message was 2 attachments, 1
txt file and 1 jpg file. I created an original email in Outlook and
set it to my Gmail account. Came in perfect, no winmail.dat. I
forwarded it back to my Outlook box. Came in perfect, no winmail.dat.
I forwarded it back to my Gmail account. Winmail.dat file. Happens
with anything I forward in Outlook that has attachments.

~Joseph
 
I know (a) and (b) are not the case. This message was 2 attachments, 1
txt file and 1 jpg file. I created an original email in Outlook and
set it to my Gmail account. Came in perfect, no winmail.dat. I
forwarded it back to my Outlook box. Came in perfect, no winmail.dat.
I forwarded it back to my Gmail account. Winmail.dat file. Happens
with anything I forward in Outlook that has attachments.

~Joseph
Click to expand...
Hm, i do have the same problem! It also exists, when i move mails from
one imap-folder to another. if i view the mails after that through an
webmail-client (instead of outlook) the winmail.dat-problem appears. it
must be, as described, a internal outlook problem.

i hope anyone can help?!

Cheers, Buddy
 
Here's what MS says about this:

---quote---
The Winmail.dat file is used to preserve formatting that the sending client
includes in the message, but is not recognized by the receiving client. In the
case of Outlook, the Winmail.dat file includes Rich Text Formatting (RTF)
instructions. This type of formatting is used with the Microsoft Outlook Rich
Text Format and when using Microsoft Word as an e-mail editor.
---end quote---

See this article for help on this subject:

How to Prevent the Winmail.dat File from Being Sent to Internet Users
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138053/EN-US
 
That what MS says isn't that right in my case. I still use Outlook to
write my mails. Furthermore i only use text/plain-format. The Problem i
think Outlook has, is the internal TNEF-Formatting while moving it into
different folders.

in my opinion it can't be the case, that outlook doesn't manage it
right. i hope someone can help me... i've been looking such a long time
to solve the problem - but no one can help me :-(
maybe it does exist, or someone can program it, a vba-tool or something
else, which can solve the responding problem.

cheers, Buddy
 
Is the message RTf in the sent folder or plain text / html?

Can you save the sent message that's in your sent folder (as a msg) and
forward it to me ([email protected]) in a zip file?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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Is the message RTf in the sent folder or plain text / html?

Can you save the sent message that's in your sent folder (as a msg) and
forward it to me ([email protected]) in a zip file?
Click to expand...
The Message is plain text. the next problem, that does also exist, is
when i get a new plain text message and move it by hand into another
imap-folder, outlook converts somehow this message, and it does also has
a winmail.dat attachment.

i think outlook doesn't handle it right. this problem does exist since
outlook 2000. at the moment i use thunderbird - it manages the
moving/sending situation without any problems. but i want, that outlook
can also handle these problems - i wanna use outlook as my default
imap-mailer. but with these big problems, i can't use it :-(
 
are you using custom forms?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/
 
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