[TriLUG] OT: winmail.dat, finished

[Chris Knowles]

Thanks Jim!  

But, in the desire to prevent future outbreaks of flames, could you
please trim the parts of your message where you make disparaging remarks
about us?  Thanks.

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

CJK

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 11:32, Jim Ray wrote:
> 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 
-- 
Chris Knowles <chrisk at trilug.org>