Unrecocognisable email attachments WINMAIL.DAT

my N95-8Gb sometimes receive unrecocognisable email attachments (WINMAIL.DAT). I can read maybe 1st line of the email msg but unable to view anymore than this. From what I can gather is that msgs seem to be in a format that my n95-8Gb cannot decipher and it just renames the file.
As I read I generally read all my emails in the html, this is very frustrating....
Anybody got any ideas, help
N95 8GB is the Best.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138053
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278061
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197064

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My boss is using Mac machine, whenever I send email from my windows machine he receives email as winmail.dat, is there any solutions for this ?

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My boss is using Mac machine, whenever I send email from my windows machine he receives email as winmail.dat, is there any solutions for this ?

Upgrading my work PC is NOT an option, but I'd like my Mac to be able to recognise the attachment for what it is
Let see, you are using a proprietary file format that is only supposed to work with Outlook. It doesn't work for millions of Windows or Mac or Linux email users that depend on other email programs like Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, webmail, etc.
Microsoft has had to publish instructions so that their program's users can make themselves compatible with the rest of the world.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290809
You are causing your own problem by not making a simple change in your program's options. Changes in the Outlook preferences can be made either Globally or by the Recipient.
Follow these steps in Outlook 2007 to turn off TNEF:
1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. Click the Mail Format tab.
3. In the Compose in this message format box, click Plain Text or HTML, and then click OK.
Don't know of a better way to fix this problem for everyone concerned. Even if you get the fix to work with your machine, you will not enable all of the people receiving your emails to be able to work with you. That's a losing battle that's been caused by Microsoft.
Now if Microsoft created a Mail plugin for other email programs like they do for their video format's and services (flip4mac, Office Live Plugin, etc), then I would consider using their email program to deal with my clients. Until then, I need to be compatible with many different programs in other countries, on different platforms. Maybe that's going to change when they bring out the new Office 2011 with Outlook for the Mac...

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Winmail.dat files are attachments sent by Microsoft mail applications (Outlook, Outlook Express or Exchange) on a proprietary format called TNEF (transport neutral encapsulation format). Being a non-standard attachment format, users from other e-mail clients (like Thunderbird or Foxmail) cannot natively read them.
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eJ8+IgAkAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAEJgAEAIQAAAEEzQUExN0Y4
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The common reason that recipients receive emails as winmail.dat is that they are not using Outlook/Exchange, their email clients can't decipher the RTF/TNEF format thus the email is shown as winmail.dat.
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I can't be sure whether it's caused by the firewall, but if all external emails are facing this issue, it's most likely caused by the firewall.
To verify this, is it possible for you to configure the firewall not to insert the header? If it makes a difference to external emails that they can be read then, we can conclude the firewall was the culprit.
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Let see, you are using a proprietary file format that is only supposed to work with Outlook. It doesn't work for millions of Windows or Mac or Linux email users that depend on other email programs like Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, webmail, etc.
Microsoft has had to publish instructions so that their program's users can make themselves compatible with the rest of the world.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290809
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Follow these steps in Outlook 2007 to turn off TNEF:
1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. Click the Mail Format tab.
3. In the Compose in this message format box, click Plain Text or HTML, and then click OK.
Don't know of a better way to fix this problem for everyone concerned. Even if you get the fix to work with your machine, you will not enable all of the people receiving your emails to be able to work with you. That's a losing battle that's been caused by Microsoft.
Now if Microsoft created a Mail plugin for other email programs like they do for their video format's and services (flip4mac, Office Live Plugin, etc), then I would consider using their email program to deal with my clients. Until then, I need to be compatible with many different programs in other countries, on different platforms. Maybe that's going to change when they bring out the new Office 2011 with Outlook for the Mac...

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