I am aware this is very off-topic on the list, but I still address it to
the list as well so I do not have to explain this problem every single
time someone reacts to the hideous WINMAIL.DAT attachments that my email
client keeps sending out.
I have given this explaination a couple of times in personal replies to
people that wrote me about this and I don't like doing that many more
times every time I open my mouth on-list. I hope you all understand.
PLEASE WRITE ANY ANSWERS TO THIS TO ME PRIVATELY AND NOT TO THE LIST.
To calm down M&M (Mickey and Mary ;-)) I slip in a very short remark on
Tom's reactie to pterofuzz in the very end of this message.
On Tuesday, June 08, 1999 7:07 AM, TomHopp [SMTP:TomHopp@aol.com] wrote:
> P.P.S. Jarno, get an anti-virus program, quick.
Surely you mean an anti-Microsoft program? The problem here is that here
at work I have to use Outlook 97 (company policy) and apart from some
other quirck this %$#^%$#^%$@-program seems to be severely
"attachment-challenged".
By default it uses its own extended message format in which you can use
different fonts, colors, bullets, indentations and alignments in your
tekst, as well as include all kinds of stuff (liek images) if you really
want. These messages are sent as follows: one email message containing
just the plain ASCII text with one attachment called WINMAIL.DAT that
contains all the extra shi... ehh.... stuff.
In Outlook Express, which I use at home, as an option where you can
switch between this extended format and plain ASCII ("normal" email, as
it should be and always was) per message you're writing. You can also set
one or the other as the default for all new mail except for those people
you specifically tell it to use the extended format for.
In Outlook 97 however, such an option simply does not exist, the extended
mail format is the default and there is only an obscure "Always send
messages in Microsoft Exchange rich text format" checkbox in the
properties for people in your address book that you should be able to
turn off to make Outlook 97 send normal ASCII only email. At least,
that's what all sources I checked seem to tell me. Of course, this option
simply seems to do nothing at all.
So, it seems that I'm stuck with these hideous WINMAIL.DAT attachment on
the end of the all message I write. All I can do is reset all formatting
to one font and black, so (I hope) this file is as small as possible.
> P.S. Pterofuzz sounds pretty good, but I was leaning toward
"feathairs."
That's a nice suggestion too, but perhaps a bit more problematic since it
sounds too much like feathers, don't you think?
Met vriendelijke groeten,
Jarno Peschier
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