Josh McFarlane
darsant at gmail.com
Sun Nov 13 21:36:22 CST 2005
On 11/13/05, Arthur Fuller <artful at rogers.com> wrote: > I have tried to send pics to various friends, whose various email clients, > and I'm not sure who uses which. But several friends have replied that the > JPGs I send arrive as files called winmail.dat rather than Myfile.JPG. I > have no idea how to fix this issue, nor even an idea which email clients > create winmail.dat. I think hotmail is one of the guilty parties, but I > could be wrong about that. > Anyone know which clients create the attachment named winmail.dat? Is it > exactly the same attachment (JPG) that I sent? In that case a simple rename > would fix the issue. But I don't know. > What if I archive the JPG first? Presumably the result would still be named > winmail.dat, but it might be the archive file as it was sent. Are you using Outlook? If so, take a look at http://www.gpc.edu/~jbenson/resource/winmail.htm There's also a KnowledgeBase article an Winmail.dat: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q138053/ For some programs to decode winmail.dat: http://www.pchell.com/support/winmaildat.shtml Hope that helps. -- Josh McFarlane "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." -Albert Einstein