Winmail.Dat Being Created On Plain Text Emails

[Rick]

I am running Outlook 2003 with all the updates and I am having a winmail.dat
file created on every email that I send even the ones in Plain Text.

Are there other settings that I need to make in Outlook to stop this from
happening?

Thanks.


Rick Bellefond
RB Data Services
www.rbdata.com

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Try turning off Word as your e-mail editor to see if it stops. (See Tool >
Options > Mail Format tab)

If Word is off, go to Tools > Options > Mail Format tab > Internet Options.
Make sure the dropdown in the middle of the dialog is not set to Outlook
Rich Text.

Check the e-mail address on the item coming from your contacts folder. For
example, open a contact item and then double click on the email address.
Check the dropdown at the bottom to verify that it is not set to Outlook
Rich Text.

Outside of that, I've heard of PDA software (Palm) that may trigger all
items to go out as Rich Text, but I've never seen it first hand.

 

[Rick]

Hi Neo,

Thanks for responding.

If I do not have an attachment and I turn off Word as my email editor it
does stop the winmail.dat from being created but then that creates another
problem.

It totally messes up my signature when I am responding to a plain text
email. My signature seems fine when responding to HTML emails. On plain
text emails it puts in a bunch of extra blank lines even though I have the
box checked in Email Options that says "Remove Extra Lines Breaks In Plain
Text Messages".

if my signature should look like:

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3

Line 4
Line 5

It turns it into something like

Line 1

Line 2
Line 3


Line 4

Line 5


To me the extra blank lines in the signature is even more annoying than the
winmail.dat being created for all emails regardless of whether they have
attachments or not.

Any idea as to how to fix that problem?

Thanks.


Rick Bellefond
RB Data Services
www.rbdata.com

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

If memory serves me right, you will find the plain text version of your
signature at:

\Documents and Settings\<USERID>\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures

Use notepad to make whatever mods you need.

/neo

ps - Application Data is a hidden folder, so don't forget to configure
Explorer to show you hidden/system files.