Attachment is being converted to .dat

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Attachment in Outlook Express

Firstly anybody know why these .xls files are being converted to .dat and is thier a way of converting it back??

 

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I assume these are 'winmail.dat' when they arrive. Turn off Rich-text sending - tools->Option->mail format and make it plain text.

Other users of OE can decode winmail.dat files though.

Harry.

 

never seen it myself but this link might help

http://www.mcse.ms/archive170-2005-2-1446210.html

rgds

Mark

 

Harry, thanks for ur reply. It keeps the file name e.g. examplexls.dat and adds a .dat at the end.

MarkN - thanks for the link, not too clear what they said to do.

Hold ctrl and right click the attachment? Anyone use Outlook Express at home that could hold ctrl and right click on a attachment and see if they get that menu option please? I wont be able to check till 2mrw.....

 

Oh - never seen that before!

I'll have a dig and see if anything pops up.

Can you detail the flow of events please? i.e. I did this first then that and the guy getting the email got the other.

Harry.

 

--another possibility--

I remember 1 time that zone alarm (the email protection part of) saved your files as dats, then you could only open them with zone alarm installed on the PC, if it is that then the open with menu does not work as it wraps the files I think.

But I agree it is most likly the former solution!

 

Dont worry guys. Justed saved the file and renamed it to .xls and worked fine. Didnt have much time yesterday before I left... but that worked. Thanks for the replies.