[TriLUG] MS attachments to list

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 12:03, Magnus wrote:
> On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 11:49 AM, Jim Ray wrote:
> 
> > <winmail.dat>
> 
> Jim could you please have a look at:
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q241/5/38.ASP
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q138/0/53.ASP
> http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/exchange/2505ch10.asp
> 
> Microsoft doesn't even want winmail.dat attachments going out to the 
> Internet (let alone the majority of people on a Linux mailing list), 
> and it can be disabled by the sender.  The purpose of these attachments 
> is entirely for internal email use where all recipients are known to be 
> using Outlook.

Thanks for the links, Chris.
In particular, here are the steps that are most useful:

<quote>
Per Recipient Change
To turn off TNEF:
     1. Create an Outlook contact for the recipient, if one does not
        already exist.
     2. Type the e-mail name of the recipient in the E-mail box of the
        contact.
     3. Select Send using plain text to turn off TNEF.
By selecting the check box, it ensures that TNEF will not be used for
any messages to this recipient.
</quote>

(the trilug at trilug.org email address can certainly be listed as a
contact)

--Jeremy
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