Joe Peppard wrote: > I have a dilemma at work. Two of the people sitting next to me use > Netscape Communicator 4.76. Netscape is the company standard. I work > as a tester in the software development group at our company. Our > department is mainly using MS based tools and is primarily using > Outlook. > > The problem is when my manager sends out messages with images using > Outlook, one of my coworkers can view them, the other get's a > winmail.dat - application/ms-tnef file attachment. >
There's lots of arcticles about this in the MS KB http://search.support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?Catalog=LCID%3D2057%26CDID%3DEN-US-KB%26PRODLISTSRC%3DON&Product=msall&Query=winmail.dat&Queryc=winmail.dat&withinResults=false&srchstep=0&KeywordType=PHRASE&Titles=false&numDays=&maxResults=50 > All my research on the net says to either download Fentun to read the > attachments or to tell the Outlook user to stop sending messages using > the proprietary MS format. > > There has to be another solution since one views the messages fine > without any attachments showing up. > > The computers are both running Win2K and have Office 97. The only > major difference was that the functional user had IE6/Outlook Express > 6 while the non-functional user had IE5/Outlook Express 5. Thinking > that somehow Outlook Express was acting as a plugin to view the > message, I upgraded the other user to IE6/OE6. This didn't help. > > In the Netscape Properties, I can't find the DAT extension or > application/ms-tnef MIME type on either of the machines. When I try > creating a new MIME type, it says the DAT extension is already > defined. > > I'd like to know how the one user is working so I can duplicate it on > the other machine. > > Thanks, > > Joe -- The day Microsoft stop making products that suck will be the day they start making vacuum cleaners. Anti-spam e-mail address, sorry for the inconvenience
