When I send jpeg pictures to people, they get "winmail.dat" files.

[Guest]

I am using Outlook 2002. When I send jpeg pictures, they get winmail.dat
files that they can't open.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Use plain text or HTML, not RTF formatting.

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[Guest]

Use plain text or HTML, not RTF formatting.

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I am using Outlook 2002. When I send jpeg pictures, they get winmail.dat
files that they can't open.

Diane, How does using plain text or html change the receiver's ability to
open a picture?

 

[Guest]

Diane, I'm not clear how changing the text changes the ability of someone to
open a jpeg?

Use plain text or HTML, not RTF formatting.

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I am using Outlook 2002. When I send jpeg pictures, they get winmail.dat
files that they can't open.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

I am using Outlook 2002. When I send jpeg pictures, they get

Diane, How does using plain text or html change the receiver's ability to
open a picture?

A winmail.dat is the TNEF wrapper used by RTF messages. If thye don't use
Outlook (and sometimes if they do, if their mail server munges the file)
they cannot use winmail.dat - only outlook knows what to do with it and how
to decode the attachments contained in it.

When you send plain text or HTML, no winmail.dat is created (or shouldn't
be) and any client can read the attachments.