RE: Users recieving win.dat attachments

  • From: "Sarbjit Singh Gill" <ssgill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'[ExchangeList]'" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 01:36:31 +0800

If you set the Exchange rich-text format option to Never use, Exchange
converts messages to plain text, which an external mail system that doesn't
support RTF or HTML messages might require
 
Anyway what was your MIME setting on your Global Setting.?
 
Cheers
Gill
 

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From: Chris Maciejewski [mailto:cmaciejewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 1:41 PM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Users recieving win.dat attachments


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Hi,
 
I have made the following setting change...
 
Open Exchange Manager
Click Global Settings
Click Internet Messaging format
Got properties of the default format
Clicked Advanced Tab
Set Exchange Rich Text format to "never use"
 
Hope this works! Any other suggestions would be appreciated!
 
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Chris Maciejewski

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From: Sarbjit Singh Gill [mailto:ssgill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, 1 September 2004 3:30 PM
To: PeterCykowski@localdomain
Cc: Chris Maciejewski
Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Users recieving win.dat attachments


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In OWA it goes out as Rich Text. If it was HTML, the attachment would have
been a .html attachment.

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From: Chris Maciejewski [mailto:] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 7:51 AM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Users recieving win.dat attachments


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Ok, thanks for the info.
 
All my users are using OWA (Outlook Web Access). By default everything goes
out as HTML obviously.
Where to from here? Is there a way to force OWA to go text?
 
Thanks,
Chris
 
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From: Andy David
Sent: Wed 01-September-2004 9:44 AM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Users recieving win.dat attachments


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winmail.dat = RTF
Have your users send in plain text format.
 

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From: Chris Maciejewski [mailto:cmaciejewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 7:39 PM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [exchangelist] Users recieving win.dat attachments


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Hi all,
 
I have a problem.
 
Running Exchange 2003 (NO-SP1) on Windows 2003 Standard Server. All is
running good.
Our Users are using OWA over HTTPS/SSL.
 
When users send email with an attachment, some of the recipients recieve a
win.dat or winmail.dat attachment, and that's all.
The users experiencing this problem are using a web-based email client
(non-Microsoft) which also does not appear to support HTML within the
message.
 
I am told that this is my problem. Im thinking 'no'.
Can anyone shed some light?
 
Thanks,
Chris
 
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