Dealing with Winmail.dat issues on Macs http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278061 http://www.askdavetaylor.com/winmaildat_attachments_are_driving_me_nuts.html >From the above site: > ....from what I've read, the real fix is for the sender to make a few tweaks > to their Microsoft Outlook to ensure that their copy of Microsoft Exchange > doesn't think it's sending to another Outlook user. It's easy: they just have > to indicate in their address book entry for you that you cannot receive Rich > Text Format (RTF) rather than the current setting which assumes that you can > and therefore must be running Outlook! Getting your colleagues to change their > address books so that you have an easier time with their attachments might be, > um, a bit tricky, however. :-) > > To simply unpack the attachments on your Mac, pop over to VersionTracker and > search for "winmail.dat". Surprise! You'll find a link to a great little > freeware app called TNEF's Enough from Josh Jacob. Download and install it and > you'll be able to drag and drop these annoying winmail.dat files onto the app > and have them unpack without incident. on 1/14/10 11:56 AM, B. Kimo Lee at bklee at azurelink.com wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > Hi Linda, > > Frank's right. I can confirm that I've used this method to overcome the file > attachment problem you described. > I use ZipIt which is a $20 shareware program <www.maczipit.com > <http://www.maczipit.com> >. Works great. > > Now if someone can help me figure out what to do about the windows.dat problem > I've run into the over way around, attachments from PCs to Macs that come in > as garbage. It only happens with one client so I haven't been willing to spend > the time to look into it, so if someone already knows what to do and how to > resolve it, please indulge me. > > Thanks, > Kimo > > > > AZURELINK :: "Simply Connected!" > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------> - > Web Site Design & Scalable, Managed Web Hosting > Joomla! Content Management System Implementation > eCommerce Development > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------> - > 321 Main Street, Suite 4 > Amherst, MA 01002 > (413) 549-2020 > Skype-In: (413) 306-4248 > Fax: (413) 825-8344 > For more information, please visit: www.azurelink.com > <http://www.azurelink.com> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------> - > > > > > > > > On Jan 14, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Frank Aronson wrote: > >> ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. >> ** If you did, we all thank you. >> >> >> This is a common problem. What you may try doing is to Zip the file first (I >> think in MacSpeak, this is either archive or compress when you right click on >> the item you wish to Zip) and then sen the compressed file. It should come >> over as a Zip file attachment. >> >> Frank -- William M. Loving Dedication Technologies, Inc. 7 Coach Lane Amherst, MA 01002-3304 USA will at dedicationtechnologies.com Tel: +1 413 253-7223 (GMT 5) Fax: +1 206 202-0476 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20100114/28d55e0c/attachment-0001.html