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 _____ From: Chris Maciejewski [mailto:cmaciejewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 1:41 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Users recieving win.dat attachments http://www.MSExchange.org/ 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! ------------------------------------------------ Chris Maciejewski _____ 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 http://www.MSExchange.org/ In OWA it goes out as Rich Text. If it was HTML, the attachment would have been a .html attachment. _____ From: Chris Maciejewski [mailto:] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 7:51 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Users recieving win.dat attachments http://www.MSExchange.org/ 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 _____ From: Andy David Sent: Wed 01-September-2004 9:44 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Users recieving win.dat attachments http://www.MSExchange.org/ winmail.dat = RTF Have your users send in plain text format. _____ From: Chris Maciejewski [mailto:cmaciejewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 7:39 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Users recieving win.dat attachments http://www.MSExchange.org/ 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? 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