Don Ferguson wrote: > Hmmmmmmmm. I'm open to suggestions, but I've been using the same > Outlook configuration (set up for Exchange) for the past few months, and > it's only this past week that emails sent to Yahoo Groups have had this > problem. Also, it's only recipients of emails from me who received them > through the Yahoo group that have had trouble. The same attachments > sent directly to some of the same people (as a test) have been fine. I > suppose Exchange might have changed -- I don't know what I can do about > that -- and I'm open to suggestions!!!
This is getting off-topic, I don't, never have, (and from the looks of things, never will) use Outlook (any flavour), nor exchange. That said, as I understand it, outlook/exchange bundles fonts, sizes and such relating to your message, along with any attachments into one winmail.dat file attachment. The outlook/exchange client at the other end unbundles that and makes the message look pretty along with all the contained attachments. It is purely a microsoft proprietary thing, and only works with outlook/exchange as far as I'm aware. Mis-configured clients (again, as I understand it, be it outlook OR exchange OR both) are configured to send to other outlook/exchange clients that can handle it. The winmail.dat attachement is never _intended_ to get into the outside world (non-microsoft exchange type clients) of course, but through mis-configuration, it occasionally does. So, if you're going through exchange to get to the outside world, it's likely the exchange configuration that is the culprit. -- Linux Registered User # 302622 <http://counter.li.org> Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
