Winmail.dat

[Nikkit72]

I am using Outlook 2003 and whenever I send a message to my hotmail account
the attachment is missing an in its place is a winmail attachment.

I cannot open this attachment and my wanted attachment is missing,

I have tried sending mail as html, rich and plain and nothing works.

Any ideas on how to fix this and it is only happening on my pc and not
others i work with?

Many thanks.

Nikki

 

[CyberTaz]

I'm afraid you won't get much assistance in a Mac Office newsgroup - which
is where you posted.

Start with the following link and post to the appropriate Windows group
(probably Vista?).Make sure to clarify what OS version, software version,
etc. The more pertinent detail the better... for you as well as for those
trying to help

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Nikki:

I suggest that you re-install Outlook 2003 (or go to its Help menu and run a
"Detect and Repair" from there).

The "winmail.dat" attachment IS the Outlook email message, including its
attachment. It's the native format in which Outlook sends email (known as
the TNEF (Transport-Neutral Exchange Format, it's a variation of RTF).

If you need to open a winmail.dat outside of Outlook, install WINZIP, it can
get them open. But the file itself is just Outlook's raw message format,
and Outlook should open it without problems.

You may be able to prevent this happening by setting Outlook to "Convert to
HTML" when "Sending to Internet recipients". You need to hunt for this
option among the Advanced settings in Tools>Options>Mail Format... The
exact position varies depending upon how you installed Outlook. Currently,
it's set to "Send Outlook Rich Text Format" and that is what is creating the
winmail.dat.

Outlook Express and several other email programs can also open winmail.dat.

Hope this helps

--

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs

+61 4 1209 1410, <mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]

 

[Nikkit72]

Thanks for that

I'm afraid you won't get much assistance in a Mac Office newsgroup - which
is where you posted.

Start with the following link and post to the appropriate Windows group
(probably Vista?).Make sure to clarify what OS version, software version,
etc. The more pertinent detail the better... for you as well as for those
trying to help

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx

 

[Nikkit72]

Thanks John, had to reinstal office in the end but it seems to have worked,
thanks for your helo.