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RE: [GOODIE] 's Tree and TextOrganizer



On Tue, 9 May 2000, Stewart MacLean wrote:

> I'm using Windoze Messaging on NT4 - sorry you can't read the
> attachments so I'll just use the brute force approach and paste 'em in
> here....

It's easier than that. Just turn off those proprietary settings, then
attachments should be fine. According to a Netscape Q&A:

Question: 

What are MS-TNEF mail attachments? 

Answer: 

Those attachments contain Microsoft Exchange's rich text information,
encoding attributes of the message such as boldface, underlining,
fonts, and colors. Exchange/Internet Mail puts these attributes into
an attachment so that they can appear to other Exchange users on the
Internet. The problem arises when people not using Exchange receive
these attachments: instead of seeing a formatted message, they see a
big chunk of UUENCODE data named WINMAIL.DAT, or a section
application/ms-tnef if you're using MIME (which is what Communicator
uses). These attachments contain only formatting and are not important
to the message itself.

For communicating with users of other clients, Exchange contains an
option to suppress sending rich text information when mailing
them. You may want to contact the person who sends these attachments,
and ask them to turn these off for messages sent to you. To do this,
they need to double-click on your address and uncheck the box labelled
"Send to this recipient in Microsoft rich text format."This buffer is
for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation.  If you
want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f, then enter the
text in that file's own buffer.

-- Bert