[Hidden-tech] Sending attachments from Mac to PC/and the other way 'round

Will Loving will at dedicationtechnologies.com
Thu Jan 14 13:39:37 EST 2010


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:

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> 
> 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
> 
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> 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


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