Recently I have had problems when trying to send mail with an image (either
pasted into message form or attached).
The mail is sent with no error messages.
In the "Sent files" folder the mail and image appear normal.
The recipient, however, instead of the image gets an attachment
"winmail.dat" which cannot open.


Thank you for any suggestions
Erik

Erik, you wrote on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:28:51 +0200:

Recently I have had problems when trying to send mail with an image
(either pasted into message form or attached). The mail is sent with
no error messages. In the "Sent files" folder the mail and image
appear normal. The recipient, however, instead of the image gets an
attachment "winmail.dat" which cannot open.

Did you sent the mail in Outlook's "Rich-Text" format? Other e-mail
clients than Outlook can't do anything with this format. To prevent such
problems you should always use neither "HTML" or "Only-Text" as format
for your outgoing mails.

Tools | Options | E-Mail-Setup

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Best Regards
Christian Goeller

you are using RTF formatted message - switch to plain text or HTML. Tools,
Options, Mail format.

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"Erik" wrote in message
. ..
Recently I have had problems when trying to send mail with an image
(either pasted into message form or attached).
The mail is sent with no error messages.
In the "Sent files" folder the mail and image appear normal.
The recipient, however, instead of the image gets an attachment
"winmail.dat" which cannot open.


Thank you for any suggestions
Erik

To Christian Goeller and Diane Poremsky

Thank you very much for your help.
But why does Outlook behave like this?
Is only image files converted to a seemingly useless "winmail.dat"?
Should the sender not have a warning about what happens to the image.

Thank you
Erik






"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" skrev i en meddelelse
...
you are using RTF formatted message - switch to plain text or HTML. Tools,
Options, Mail format.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:



"Erik" wrote in message
. ..
Recently I have had problems when trying to send mail with an image
(either pasted into message form or attached).
The mail is sent with no error messages.
In the "Sent files" folder the mail and image appear normal.
The recipient, however, instead of the image gets an attachment
"winmail.dat" which cannot open.


Thank you for any suggestions
Erik

Erik wrote:

To Christian Goeller and Diane Poremsky

Thank you very much for your help.
But why does Outlook behave like this?
Is only image files converted to a seemingly useless "winmail.dat"?
Should the sender not have a warning about what happens to the image.

Outlook's Rich Text Format is a format only it understands. However, it's
also the format is wants to use by default. Outlook's assumption is that it
will be exchanging data with other instances of Outlook and you must tell it
differently from the outset.
--
Brian Tillman