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Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 01:17:53 -0700
From: Kevin Mulvihill
Subject: Re: I'm gettin real tired of this crappy E-mail...
Well, it certainly seems as though the kid here may finally be free of the
winmail.dat monster! Thanks to Daniel Plaenitz and John Pares who both sent
me private emails saying that I did not send an attachment to the list with
my last email. Those two comments, plus the fact that no one flamed me,
suggest that my attachment challenge may finally be overcome! Hooray!
For my contribution to all you Microsoft Mail/Outlook users out there,
lurking in the shadows just WAITING to post, here's the high points of my
current configuration
- RTF off
- MIME off
- Word-as-email-editor off, and
- Microsoft Internet Mail Enhancement Patch ON!
You can get this patch at:
http://www.microsoft.com/outlook/documents/imep.htm. I believe it was the patch
that fixed my problem with the nefarious winmail.dat ogre; those other
settings had been that way for some time.
A final thanks to those of you who patiently, and without flaming, sent me
private emails about my attachments to the list. I
appreciate those who try to be a positive influence for change, rather than
merely grandstanding for the list or their own ego.
Kevin
NOTE: THE MESSAGE KEVIN WROTE ABOUT ABOPVE O LONGER SEEMS TO WORK!
Microsoft seems to have no information on this. In a similar vein, learn how to turn off HTML/RTF formatting of your messages.
February 2001 Micrsoft now has an answer at:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q138/0/53.ASP
Let's hope this URL sticks around.
September 2003 I guess it does not stick very long. John Rigali kindly wrote with yet another URL for this tech note:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q241/5/38.ASP&NoWebContent=1
Let's take a bet on the shelf life of this URL.... 1 year? 8 months? 12 minutes?