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<Warren Meek> wrote in message : Brian is right! Importing contacts caused my Outlook 2002 to send
winmail.dat files instead of .doc and .pdf to certain mail recipients.
Before you look anywhere else or do anything else, Check your email
addressee and you will see Outlook is sending in Rich Text Format. Change
this to Let Outlook decide. Fixed!
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: Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
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: The fact that each individual contact can have this setting has been
: 10-Nov-09
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: The fact that each individual contact can have this setting has been
mentioned
: a huge number of times in this and the .outlook.contacts newsgroups.
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: Importing contacts is a leading cause of it.
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: Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
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: Previous Posts In This Thread:
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: On Monday, October 05, 2009 7:27 PM
: Robert wrote:
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: Using HTML, attachments show up as winmail.dat for iPhone Recipien
: When I send attachments using HTML mail format such as pdf, doc, xls from
: Outlook 2007 to iphone recipients they only receive winmail.dat file. If
I
: use Plain Text to send attachments they are received normally by the
iPhone
: recipients. I am using MS Office 2007 Outlook and Windows Vista.
:
: Everything I have read about this issue indicates not to use RTF and HTML
or
: Plain Text are recommended. It appears for some reason I can only use
Plain
: Text.
:
: If I send attachments from my web mail client they are received by all.
:
: I would prefer to use HTML for all recipients from Outlook.
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: Bob
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: On Tuesday, October 06, 2009 1:45 AM
: VanguardLH wrote:
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: Re: Using HTML, attachments show up as winmail.dat for iPhone Recipien
: Robert wrote:
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: You sure that you are composing in HTML format and not RTF? Recipients
: do not get winmail.dat attachments unless RTF was used.
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: On Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:28 PM
: Robert wrote:
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: I am as sure as I can possibly be that I am composing HTML.
: I am as sure as I can possibly be that I am composing HTML. The way I
: discoverd that sending attachments in Plain Text mail format worked was
that
: I made the global change from HTML to Plain text just to test. The
problem
: is not the body/text of the email...it is the attachments show up as
: winmail.dat when composing the email in HTML.
: --
: Robert
:
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: "VanguardLH" wrote:
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: On Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:34 PM
: Rania Alomar wrote:
:
: HTML files to Mac users - attachments come in as winmail.dat
: I have exactly the same problem.
: I have figured out that it is specifically my machine sending HTML files
to Mac users. so it is on my end and not on the receiving end where the
problem lies. Have you found any solutions yet?
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: Robert wrote:
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: Re: Using HTML, attachments show up as winmail.dat for iPhone Reci
: 07-Oct-09
:
: I am as sure as I can possibly be that I am composing HTML. The way I
: discoverd that sending attachments in Plain Text mail format worked was
that
: I made the global change from HTML to Plain text just to test. The
problem
: is not the body/text of the email...it is the attachments show up as
: winmail.dat when composing the email in HTML.
: --
: Robert
:
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: "VanguardLH" wrote:
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: Previous Posts In This Thread:
:
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: XCeed Streaming Compression Library
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http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorial...f-769ec7085cf2/xceed-streaming-compressi.aspx
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: On Friday, November 06, 2009 10:51 AM
: ShankarNathan wrote:
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: As a sender from Outlook 2007, some of my recipients were getting
: As a sender from Outlook 2007, some of my recipients were getting my
: attachments as winmail.dat.
:
: The following link was useful in resolving the issue. Thanks.
:
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http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/qt/et121705.htm
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: "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
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: On Monday, November 09, 2009 2:54 PM
: Robert wrote:
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: I believe I have solved the winmail.dat file problem on iPhones.
: I believe I have solved the winmail.dat file problem on iPhones.
:
: I have discovered as predicted by Microsoft that when Outlook Mail Format
is
: set to compose in HTML the attachments do arrive on other iPhones in the
: proper format and can be opened and viewed. However I was still having a
: problem with specific people/email addresses and specifically my own email
: address. Even though I had Outlook Mail Format set to compose in HTML,
some
: email address would still receive a winmail.dat file.
:
: What I discovered was that some individual email addresses in my contacts
: had the Internet Format set to Send in Rich Text Format instead of Let
: Outlook Decide. Not sure how that got set that way since that is not the
: default. The real problem was that I have two entries in my contacts for
the
: same email address for myself. One for my standard email address and the
: other undisclosed-recipients which is associated with the same email
address.
: One was set properly and the other was not.
: At any rate problem is solved.
:
: --
: Bob
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: "ShankarNathan" wrote:
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: On Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:26 AM
: Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
:
: The fact that each individual contact can have this setting has been
: The fact that each individual contact can have this setting has been
mentioned
: a huge number of times in this and the .outlook.contacts newsgroups.
:
:
: Importing contacts is a leading cause of it.
: --
: Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
:
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