On 11/18/05 8:00 PM, "Jim Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A medical software vendor is attempting to email me literature about his > product. He says he sent it as a word doc. It arrived as a 1.9 MB attachment > named "winmail.dat", which Mac programs decide is an image file. > > He resent it as a .pdf, but again it arrives in Entourage 2004 as an > attachment with the same name (winmail.dat), and Adobe Reader cannot open > it. > > The mailer is > >> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) >> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 > > Any ideas what's happening here? Yes. Ask the sender to resend in either plain text or HTML (he can do either). He is sending in Outlook's proprietary RTF format (the default in Outlook), which can't be read on a Mac (natively). Alternatively, you could get TNEF's Enough (<http://1url.org/go/1tx9>) which will decode these attachments. Beth -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
