I have seen this occasionally with various 3rd party products (Anti-virus or Anti-spam products). Do you have either of these on the Australian server? If so, which ones?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Molkentin Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 8:21 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Winmail.dat July 1 is like April 1... Is like any day I can try pulling a joke on any user! ;) You'd be amazed how many "admins" fell for that when I suggested it on another list (albeit not an exchange one). V. funny. Interested to see what the resolution is - I've never heard of the problem. themolk. > -----Original Message----- > From: Carmila Fresco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2003 10:17 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Winmail.dat > > > I would've fallen for it if I didn't know better. Maybe I > can try telling my users that and see if they buy it. :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Molkentin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 5:12 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > > Carmila, > > It's the international dateline - every time you send an > e-mail to a group across it, it attaches the winmail.dat file > so that when it is opened, it is read in the local time zone > (and reflects that).[1] > > themolk. > > [1] Complete BS - but I couldn't help but throw it out there. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Carmila Fresco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2003 10:07 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Winmail.dat > > > > > > > > Some of my users are getting the winmail.dat attachments. > > The messages are coming from users in our Australian office. > > > > We're running Exchange 2000 SP3 on both servers, same Org, still on > > mixed mode. The users in both offices are all running Outlook XP. > > > > The weird thing is it's intermittent and it only seems to > happen when > > it's sent to a distribution list. > > > > I've been searching on the web and a lot of the articles point to > > sending from exchange to a non-exchange mail server or sending to a > > non-Outlook client. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Carmila > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This email message may contain information that is confidential and > > proprietary to Babcock & Brown or a third party. If you > are not the > > intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy > the original > > > and any copies of the original message. Babcock & Brown takes > > measures to protect the content of its communications. 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