Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Regarding Charles forwarding of Brian's analysis of the winmail.dat files corrupting the digest, there is only one or two continuous offenders that for some reason cannot get rid of the winmail trash that some e-mail programs insist in attaching. If you are doing this, and can't figure out how to turn it off, switch to a simpler e-mail package, the same goes for those programs that insist in attaching all the HTML tags to the messages. I don't think our mailer program is particularly happy with programs such as Outlook or similar, as it is a much simpler communication package. It gets a bit frustrating trying to read though screens of winmail.dat, or HTML tags to get to the core of a posting. And as it appears that these types of programs are causing the digest users to lose portions of the digest, it is not fair to those subscribers. It also causes me to wonder what has occured to the actual digest files, are they affected, and therefor missing information, or is it only on the receiving end when you have a digest sent to you that the truncation occurs. If winmail has corrupted the actual digests, that is certainly a loss to us all as well. Just my thoughts Noel Charchuk