Infopath 2007 - sending forms by mail

[Michał Lesiak (bler)]

Using the IP 2003, I was able to send a filled form to mail recipients
directly from infopach, and the form was attached as a .xsn file. In IP 2007,
the same procedure produces an e-mail with winmail.dat attached, whether I
choose "Editable form" + "Include form template" or "Read-only snapshot". It
works fine, of course, for MSO 2007 recipients, but unfortunately I have to
deal with Lotus Notes users.

Is it Outlook or Infopath related, and can this issue be resolved in any
other way than reinstalling Office 2k3?

 

[Nathaniel Stott [MSFT]]

The answer here is that Exchange is doing the work to create the .dat file
when the message is being sent across the IMC. It sees the message class we
have added and then bundles the files into a TNEF blob.



The best alternative is to go into Form options dialog (E-mail page) and
uncheck the check box that enables InfoPath e-mail forms. This will cause
InfoPath to not stamp the offending attributes on the message and should
make the Exchange server settle down and not send .dat files.
Alternatively, you could have your Exchange admin change the Exchange
settings to not send TNEF.



I hope that helps!!!



Nate