windat attachment?

[Jacob Havkrog]

Hi group.

I get some complaints, from Outlook users attaching a word document to an
email, that the recipient doesn't receive the word file, but a "windat"
file, that they cant open.

Can anybody shed some ligth?

Its an email to many recipients where the recipient addresses are listen in
the Bcc: field.

What's a windat file anyway?

Thanks for your help
Jacob

 

[Brian Tillman]

I get some complaints, from Outlook users attaching a word document
to an email, that the recipient doesn't receive the word file, but a
"windat" file, that they cant open.

Can anybody shed some ligth?

Its an email to many recipients where the recipient addresses are
listen in the Bcc: field.

What's a windat file anyway?

That file is the TNEF (Transport-Neutral Encapsulation Format) of the
message. an Outlook/Exchange-specific format used to transmit attachments
when the message format is Rich Text. See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278061/en-us . Make sure you send your
messages in Plain Text or HTML. You can also direct people to a free
utility that will allow the decoding of those attachments:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tnef/