[TriLUG] OT: has winmail.dat shown up on original messages or just replies?

[Jim Ray]

done.  i hope folks realize that we're a lot more interested in fixing a problem than arguing the merits of one vendor or another.
 
i'll try the server changes.  thanks, al.

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Al Mulnick [mailto:amulnick at nc.rr.com] 
	Sent: Thu 6/26/2003 11:25 AM 
	To: Jim Ray; 'Joshua Bedick' 
	Cc: 'Al Mulnick'; neuse at nc.rr.com 
	Subject: Re: test
	
	

	There is a way to do that.  You can set the connector (if using one) to only 
	send plain-text.  Or you can make the change globaly in the global settings 
	to only send plain text messages and not the client figure it out.  But my 
	guess is that you should also send another message that you originate to 
	magnus and see what the behavior is.  I mean, what the heck right?  What if 
	the winmail.dat came from somebody else and you just forwarded it in your 
	reply which is not unexpected?  That would be an interesting thing. 

	Al 
	----- Original Message ----- 
	From: "Jim Ray" <jim at neuse.net> 
	To: "'Joshua Bedick'" <jbedick at gratedtech.com> 
	Cc: "'Al Mulnick'" <amulnick at nc.rr.com>; "'Al Mulnick'" 
	<amulnick at microsoft.com>; <neuse at nc.rr.com> 
	Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:19 AM 
	Subject: RE: test 


	Thank you'll very much for your time.  If there were a way to configure 
	Exchange 2000 to not send any winmail.dat and to only send plain text, I'd 
	do it. 

	I'll be darn if I'm going to hose my Exchange server on account of some *nix 
	head, though. 

	> -----Original Message----- 
	> From: Joshua Bedick [mailto:jbedick at gratedtech.com] 
	> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:33 PM 
	> To: Jim Ray 
	> Cc: Al Mulnick; Al Mulnick; neuse at nc.rr.com 
	> Subject: RE: test 
	> 
	> 
	> Jim, 
	> 
	> (No winmail.dat.) 
	> 
	> OE and Outlook automatically understand winmail.dat files. 
	> They ar MS specific and I believe have to do with RTF emails. 
	> 
	> I too occaisonally have had problems with your emails, in OE, 
	> because I get TRILUG as a digest.  MIME and HTML emails look 
	> like crap in plain text assuming you can read them at all. 
	> 
	> Take care, 
	> 
	> Joshua