Attachments being changed 1

[TheFanatic]

I have a user that sends documents attached to Outlook 2000 emails, but when they arrive in the some of the recipient's mailboxes the file extension for the documents are changed to .dat, whether it's Word, Quark 4.1, Excell or Access. They all get changed from .doc, .qxd, .xls, or .mdb to .dat. It doesn't happen with everyone. She will send the same email to 6 people and 2 will get the .dat files and the rest will be fine. Anyone ever seen this one before?

 

[sleipnir214]

Does the .dat file contain the data from the originally-named attachment, or is the data different? ______________________________________________________________________
Perfection in engineering does not happen when there is nothing more to add.
Rather it happens when there is nothing more to take away.

 

[yizhar]

HI.

They get a file named WINMAIL.DAT right?
This is because the recipients are using a different email program that does not support MS Outlook Rich Text Format.

You can solve this in several ways:

* Best way - instruct the user (sender) to send those emails in either Plain Text or HTML (but not rich text).

* Other options:
Instruct the recipients to use a program like Fentun:

http://www.fentun.com

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Yizhar Hurwitz

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[TheFanatic]

Thanks Yizhar, that did the trick.

 

[Rhonin]

Having the same problem and no it is not Winmail.dat (see other post)

I can send, for example, Namelist.xls and will receive it as Namelist.dat

The original data is present but formatted into a style the originating program cannot read.

Rhonin
"a sharp mind is a sign of a well worn whetstone"

 

[CidMatrix]

Rhonin, did you ever resolved your issue?? I'm having the same issue with one of my users. He attaches a Word file and every now and then the extesion will be converted to DAT. I've been looking around to find a solution, but everyone confuses with the WINMAIL.DAT issue.

 

[linhawaii]

I am having the same problem. The file comes across on some machines correctly (as a Word doc), but on other machines the file shows up as winmail.dat. This file can not be opened so I do not know if the file is the same as the one that was originally sent as a Word doc. Any suggestions?