How can i avoid Lotus notes receiving a winmail.dat file

[frustrated]

Each time I send a brief text message to a specific individual using Lotus
Notes from outlook he receives a winmail.dat attachment, if he replies to the
email I receive various .gif files, one of them is a pic06618.gif which is a
globe icon that notes adds; however I also receive a doclink.gif file rather
than the text reply that he has added..any ideas.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Make sure you don't send mail in Rich Text format. Use Plain Text or HTML
instead. The GIFs you get sound like they're part of a signature at his end
of things

 

[Brian Tillman]

Each time I send a brief text message to a specific individual using
Lotus Notes from outlook he receives a winmail.dat attachment, if he
replies to the email I receive various .gif files, one of them is a
pic06618.gif which is a globe icon that notes adds; however I also
receive a doclink.gif file rather than the text reply that he has
added..any ideas.

Make sure you're not using Rich Text format for composing messages.