Hmmmmmmmmm. Well, I'm pretty sure that's all flat wrong (and yes, off topic, sorry!!) since I've been exchanging (pun intended) thousands of emails with attachments with all sorts of internet mail users for months with no problems. I will ask the question of my Exchange provider, but again since Outlook has always worked fine for sending emails with attachments to people both through Yahoo Groups and directly for months, and since Outlook hasn't changed and since only people receiving my emails with attachments through Yahoo groups are having the problem, I'd say it's 95+% odds that it's a problem in Yahoo groups and 5-% chance that it's something in Exchange.
Don't be too quick to judge the Outlook/Exchange pair, especially in the Palm Treo world. It's here to stay, it works VERY well, and it's why I can get my email, calendar and contacts on my 700p, usually before Outlook gets them, at no additional cost and with no central Canadian server farm getting in my way (take THAT! Blackberry users!!). I know there's a lot of anti-Microsoft sentiment out there, but most of it's misplaced. Their products provide significant function and in my experience are very reliable -- far more reliable than Yahoo groups has been as of late. Cheers, Don -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Tserkezis Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 7:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Dup emails 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]
