Sender claimed it was sent as a .doc, PDF and RTF file attachments but all I got was a single winmail.dat file.
Suggestions are welcome. Have talked with ISP and they don't understand it either......
Guy from the same company gets the attachment to me OK.
THANKS in advance.
Power Mac G5 (June 2004), Mac OS X (10.5.8), Same problem on my iPad
So much for MS only stuff! 😟
http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailaddons/gr/omic.htm
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/TNEFs-Enough.shtml
Of course if the sender could be educated, they can turn off that winmail.dat thing...
I had the same problem as well. I now use a free software called TNEF's Enough (nicely named!) to convert such attachments. It works very well for me now! The software can be downloaded at http://www.joshjacob.com/mac-development/tnef.php
Hi
This will help.
The person that is sending you emails, has chosen in Outlook, to use the RTF format, for emailing and or specifically for emailing you. Perhaps this is default Outlook behavior at times.
This results in the winmail.dat file, which is the RTF format, of the attachments that were intended for you.
If the user would configure Outlook, to use the HTML (web) format, for emails, then you would receive the attachments as intended. As well as anybody else.
Apple mail and other mail systems, do not understand the RTF (rich text) format, and probably have to pay Microsoft licensing fees, to be able to use this format.
The options, for setting this in Outlook, differ for different versions of Outlook, but are found generally under
Tools > Address book, for setting a specific person to , use HTML format, and not RTF format, that persons email.
Also, under "Tools" > "Options", > "Mail format", for setting that all emails, will use the HTML format, instead of the RTF format.
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Sender keeps trying to send word doc but all I get is winmail.dat file which is garbage. Why?
