Why "Winmail.dat" hides my attachments?

[Dario72]

Here is an awful problem.
Using Outlook 2000, I tried to send an attachment ("file.zip&quot to my boss. He receives the message, but the only attachment he sees is a file called Winmail.dat and not my "file.zip". The size of Winmail.dat is a little larger and if he renames the files as "file.zip", he founds what I sent. But why the attachment has another name?

 

[Dogers]

what email client is your boss using?

 

[Dario72]

My boss tried to receive my messages with Outlook 2000, Outlook express, Eudora 5 and I always found the winmail.dat attachment. Also with Hotmail Web interface.

 

[Dogers]

and none of them pick up the zip file properly?

if not, i'd check with the admin (unless youre it? ) of the network to make sure the mail servers not doing anything silly to the mails, especially if the boss is trying to pick the mail up from outside the company network.

can you try other people, see if they can send to him/you and you can send to them? see what it comes out as ,to see if its just one of you two thats affected, or if its the whole network

 

[Dario72]

Well, since I'm the admin and this happens only with Outlook (Eudora have not theis problem, we tried succesfully), I'm sure it's an Outlook matter. Me and the boss are simply trying to solve this problem.
I think it's an encoding problem, or something like that... in the web I found some suggestion like changing the mail format - RTF, HTML or NORMAL), but it doesn't work)

 

[iGrant]

I'm pretty sure that this is a problem with outlook. There's a note about it somewhere on the Microsoft web site, but I think the only solution (which has worked for me) is to change the format of the mail message to 'Plain Text'.

(Select Plain Text from the Format menu when writing the message in Outlook).

 

[xlhelp]

Hi, Dario,

You have to go into your Outlook and turn MIME off. That's probably what's causing the problem.