On 11/12/02 4:11 AM, "Hylton Boothroyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yesterday I had problems in dealing with an incoming winmail.dat attachment > in Outlook Express under Mac OS 9.2.2. > > Neither Outlook Express 5.0.2 nor MacLink Plus deluxe (13.002) could cope > with it. > > Fortunately I found TNEF Enough at > http://www.joshjacob.com/macdev/tnef/ > and so could save the winmail.dat to file, drop the file on TNEF Enough, and > read the resulting RTF file in Word98. > > But would Outlook Express 5.0.6 have done any better? > > And am I missing something obvious? No. Those are usually - but not always - not real attachments. They come automatically from users of Outlook Windows [Outlook - NOT Outlook Express] when it sends mail with its default RTF format (for formatted text) which no one but Outlook can read. It's usually just the unused formatting data. BUT -if the sender includes a real attachment with it, it gets bundled in that same winmail.dat thing and you need TNEF's Enuf to open it. What you should do is ask any regular correspondent from whom you continually get these things to put you in their Outlook Address Book as someone to send plaintext automatically - or send you HTML rather than RTF if the formatting is important. There's nothing you - or any non-Outlook email client - can do about it at your end. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:MacOE-Talk-Off@;lists.letterrip.com> To search the archives: <http://athena.doe.com> Unofficial Outlook Express Page: <http://www.macemail.com/oe/>
