Winmail.Dat being sent to Contacts

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Lee

OK, so I am familiar with how Winmail.dat is sent to
people outside of our organization, but what I don't
understand is how does Outlook 2000, XP or 2003, decide
how to send an email?

I found these two articles that talk about how to stop
it, but it doesn't answer how does it decide what format
to send. Can anyone me understand the decision process?

https://premier.microsoft.com/premier/library/default.aspx
?scid=kb;en-us;290809

https://premier.microsoft.com/premier/library/default.aspx
?scid=kb;en-us;821750#11

Thanks
 
The first article you indicated below has the instructions for telling
Outlook what format to send in...Outlook will do whatever you tell it to.
Look back in that article under "How to Specify E-mail Format" and you will
see specific instructions for choosing a global sending format as well as
setting each contact to send either in a specific format or to use the
global setting (i.e. "Let Outlook choose the best sending format", or
similar).

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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Jocelyn - Thanks for your reply, but you didn't answer my
question. I know how to resolve the Winmail.dat issue.
In the articiles they show that, but my question was
geared more towards if you let outlook decide, HOW does
it decide? What is the prrocess that outlook goes
through to figure out what it uses. When it recieves
from that person, does it then add that to the contact
info that it should get RTF based formats, or what?
Thanks for your response, hopefully this time I was more
clear with what I was looking for.

-Lee
 
Hi Lee,

Thanks for your posting here.

Based on my knowledge, the Outlook client composes a message according to
the format setting in it. You can control the TNEF format TNEF by the
following methods:

- Global - If you change your default e-mail format to plain text or
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), it helps to ensure that TNEF is not sent
unless an Outlook feature needs it.

- Per Recipient - You can specify in the recipient's e-mail address to not
send TNEF so that a recipient always receives plain text versions of the
message.

- Per Message - When you compose a new message, or replying to a received
message.

For more information, refer to the articles below:

290809 How Message Formats Affect Internet Mail
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=290809

278061 Attachments in a RTF Message Are Received As Winmail.dat Attachments
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=278061

Hope this helps! Have a nice day!

Thanks & Regards
Alan Sun
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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|OK, so I am familiar with how Winmail.dat is sent to
|people outside of our organization, but what I don't
|understand is how does Outlook 2000, XP or 2003, decide
|how to send an email?
|
|I found these two articles that talk about how to stop
|it, but it doesn't answer how does it decide what format
|to send. Can anyone me understand the decision process?
|
|https://premier.microsoft.com/premier/library/default.aspx
|?scid=kb;en-us;290809
|
|https://premier.microsoft.com/premier/library/default.aspx
|?scid=kb;en-us;821750#11
|
|Thanks
|
 
I don't know if there's much to the process, actually, and I think the MSKB
articles do give some clues as to the process used. For example, if you
don't specify a sending format for a certain contact, Outlook will try to
use the default format you have set for outgoing messages -- say, HTML.
However, certain items must be sent in different formats due to their
nature -- for example, a meeting request must be sent in Rich Text format,
and you would be sending it to another Outlook user so that recipient should
have no trouble receiving and interpreting that format. So, in that case,
Rich Text format would automatically be used. Now, if you had a contact set
to "Always send to this user in Plain Text", and you tried to send a meeting
request to him/her, chances are that contact would get a garbled message
because you did not allow sending the required Rich Text to that recipient.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please
reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


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Outlook decides based on the address - an internet address converts to
HTML unless you forced it to always use RTF for the recipient. An internal
address remains RTF.
Jocelyn - Thanks for your reply, but you didn't answer my
question. I know how to resolve the Winmail.dat issue.
In the articiles they show that, but my question was
geared more towards if you let outlook decide, HOW does
it decide? What is the prrocess that outlook goes
through to figure out what it uses. When it recieves
from that person, does it then add that to the contact
info that it should get RTF based formats, or what?
Thanks for your response, hopefully this time I was more
clear with what I was looking for.
Click to expand...


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)




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