Compatibility situation with Outlook XP and 97 1

[WhiteTornado]

Hi,

I have the following problem with Outlook: I have a network with one PC with Windows XP (Outlook XP) communicating to a Windows 98 station using outlook 97 and in the properties of the message at the XP end I am getting:

Boundary_(ID.....)
Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel
name="=?iso-8859-1?q?Calculs_=Epaisseur_Mont-Royal.xls
etc…

and at the receiving end, this gets changed to:

Boundary ….
Content-type: application/ms-tnefd;
name=winmail.dat
etc…

The file extension and its name changes and therefore is not usable.

Anyone has a tip on where I could find something on that?

Thanks!

 

[smah]

A winmail.dat attachment is usually received when the recieving computer can not correctly interpret Outlook's Rich Text Format. I would expect Outlook 97 to have this problem but maybe. For mail clients other than Outlook, this is a fairly common problem. Have the sender (Outlook XP) change the outgoing mail format to HTML or Plain Text instead of RTF.

 

[WhiteTornado]

Hi and thanks, you are correct, after an exhaustive search I was able to debug this issue, this is what was going on. Thank you for your help!
Cheers!
Marcel