Re: Winmail.dat resolution

["Russ W. Urquhart" Russ.Urquhart@xxxxxxxx]

Frank,

according to the web page carl found, it seems you should be able to send
email formatted at plain text. (As you know, the rtf file contained in the
winmail.dat file contains the formatting for your mail.)

It seems you should be able to go to the Tools menu, click Options and then
Mail Format. In the "Send in this message format", select Plain Text.

This should work. You shouldn't have to do all the other steps.


hope this helps,


Russ



On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:48:25AM +0200, Frank Heydenrych wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Thanks to Daniel Say and other people for their input. This is the source of
> the problem:
>
> * Outlook sends the message and, under certain conditions (if I reply, for
> instance, to an existing e-mail) it adds Winmail.dat as a Uuencoded piece of
> data to RTF the plain text, whether I want it or not (I don't); I have
> unticked every box I could, but it makes no nevermind
> * It presumes another Outlook reader will receive the e-mail
> * Most of you DON'T use Outlook, so it appears as garbage
>
> It's almost unpreventable due to MS and the multitude of readers out there
> ... so I will simply initiate a clean, non-RTF new mail every time to the
> group, rather than reply.
>
> Whew!!!!!!
>
> Frank
>
>