[Gllug] Mail with .dat attachment

Simon Trimmer simon at urbanmyth.org
Thu Jan 3 16:24:55 UTC 2002


On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 tet at accucard.com wrote:
> >Any tips as to what the sender can do to send it in another format
> >(She is using MS Outlook so I guess it's a bit OT)
>
> I haven't found any rhyme or reason to this. Outlook seems to pick an
> encoding for attachments entirely at random. Sometimes it does it properly,
> other times it uses MS-TNEF. Telling it to send mail in plain text rather
> that RTF seem to have good results, although why they format of the body
> of the message should affect the attachment encoding is beyond me (and
> probably anyone outside of Redmond).

It's much stranger than that, veritas "improved" their mailservers a while
back and since then random emails get ms-tnef encapsulated by exchange as
they pass through towards the solaris server. It's most annoying having
people send email properly and having it broken en-route.

-Simon
Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>


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