Chris Allen wrote: > For mu emails, I use Evolution 2.6.1 on Ubuntu LTS > > Some friends try to send me attachments created as DOC or XLS files on > their MS boxes or even as PDF files. This works sometimes bur not > always. > > 2 or 3 time now the attachment has listed in the email as a file named > "winmail.dat" which I cannot read. > > Can any one make sense of this? >
Microsoft Outlook can use a particular format of email called rich text - which only Outlook can read (not even Outlook Express can). The effect on all other email readers is that emails arrive with winmail.dat attachments - the email is sent out with the body of the message as plain text and the formatted body plus any attachments all bundled up into winmail.dat. To extract any attachments there are readers online and downloadable that will unpack the winmail.dat and dump the body and attachments out. Users of Microsoft outlook can select to use rich text editing or not. I'd suggest telling them to not do so. Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
