Rich Text Attachments (i.e. winmail.dat) are not readable on email clients other than Outlook (at least to the average user).
See MANY webpages about it, notably http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197066/EN-US/ KAM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kris Deugau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:22 AM Subject: [Mimedefang] Weird issue with Outlook + "Rich Text" + attachments > I just had a customer report that mail sent from MS Outlook clients > (Outlook 2000 I think) in "Rich Text" (RTF?) format, with attachments, > through a server I set up for them, arrives with no attachment. > > Plaintext mail with attachments goes through just fine. The IT guy that > called me wasn't certain if HTML mail showed the same problem. > > Has anyone heard of attachments getting dropped from certain client-side > email formats when they shouldn't be? > > I'm fairly sure this is not a MIMEDefang issue - this is apparently a > long-standing issue that happened with a much older server (sendmail > 8.9.something) I had set up some time ago, and seems to have continued > with the machine I recently set up as a replacement (running sendmail > 8.12.something, with MIMEDefang to add a footer to outgoing mail). I > was careful to disable/comment out any sections of the default > mimedefang-filter that might have done something like that - but I'm > never entirely certain I haven't missed something when I get a report of > Weird Things Happening. > > -kgd > -- > Get your mouse off of there! You don't know where that email has been! > _______________________________________________ > Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca > MIMEDefang mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang > _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
