On 9/19/10 9:45 AM, "Hendrik Velthuis" <[email protected]> wrote:
>The excel files are being sent from my own PC using Outlook 2007. Sent to >another email address of mine. Both email addresses are Gmail. > >smtp.gmail.com going up from Outlook on the PC > >pop.gmail.com coming down onto Entourage on the MacBook In your situation, no Exchange server is involved. Correct? This is strictly Gmail sending and Gmail receiving using Outlook for Windows? >I have checked Outlook on the PC - at the level of the individual mails, >in >the options tab HTML is clearly selected. At the general level of the >Tools >Tab - Options - Mail Format - Message Format - HTML is clearly selected >also... And did you also check the contact record in your Address Book? The below information is taken from this article on About.com¹s website: "Disable Winmail.dat Stubbornly Going to Recipients No Matter the Default² <http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/ss/wt121705a.htm> 1. Open the recipient¹s contact record in our Outlook address book. 2. Double-click or Right-click the E-mail address in the E-mail field and select Outlook Properties 3. From the Internet Format field drop-down menu, select "Let Outlook decide the best sending format². >Also if I do a resend, but send in Plain Text (not HTML, not Rich Text) >then >the file is received OK on the the other end. > >But unfortunately NOBODY uses Plain Text Not true at all! The reason most people send HTML mail messages is because it¹s the default setting. Plain text is ideal for most situations because it sends a smaller message and allows the recipient to view the message in his font and font size rather than you imposing your view on the recipient. Plain text is especially needed for users who may have vision problems and need to adjust the view of your message for easier reading. >Worse: 95% of ALL mails sent to and from my mail address stored on Gmail >since 2006 are HTML so whatever solution that could be out there MUST >consider mails in HTML... Otherwise it is no solution for me I¹m afraid you¹re not going to find any easy solution for your old messages other than to manually convert them. As has been mentioned, this issue is proprietary to Outlook for Windows and its non-Outlook recipients. This problem is not caused by Macs nor is it caused by any mail clients on the Macs. You¹re experiencing the disadvantage of having worked in and relied on a Microsoft Windows environment with Microsoft Windows applications. Effectively, all your eggs were in one big Microsoft basket. And Microsoft has a history of using proprietary methods that are not interchangeable with anything else. Only recently have they begun publishing documentation about their proprietary protocols, mainly due to the European lawsuit that now requires them to do so. Conversion away from that environment is not easy and often not interchangeable with anything else. A good deal of Macintosh software, including Microsoft Entourage, has been written to open standards so that content is interchangeable. I would dare say this is a philosophy of the Mac platform since Mac OS X arrived. You¹re making a good decision to try the Mac and over time you will probably find you actually have a wider range of choices for applications and services because your data won¹t be locked into just one format. Hope this helps! -- William Smith -- YouTalk mailing list List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
