[Leica] WinMail.Dat attachments

[Jim Arnold <jim@ohio.com>]

There are people on this list who keep sending WINMAIL.DAT attachments.
I'm sure they have no idea they are doing it.

Here is how to deal with them.

Jim

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From http://www.annoyances.org/win95/win95ann5.html

Stop Exchange from Attaching WINMAIL.DAT

Last Modified: 1/6/96

A good way to piss people off on the Internet is to repeatedly fill
their mailbox with the useless WINMAIL.DAT attachments that Microsoft
Exchange insists on including. Since Exchange supports rich-text email
(bold, italic, multiple fonts, etc.), and Internet email doesn't, any
email sent from Exchange to a non-Exchange mail reader will contain an
Attachment called WINMAIL.DAT. If you use Exchange, you won't see this
file, and the message will retain its formatting. However, it can be
confusing for those who don't use Exchange (the majority of the
Internet population), and have no use for this file. Here's how to
turn it off:

Step #1:

Double-click on the Mail and Fax icon in Control Panel. Click on the
Services tab, and select Internet Mail from the list. If Internet Mail
is not listed, click Add to add this service. Click Properties, and
then Message Format. Turn off the option that reads Use MIME when
sending messages. Click OK and then OK again.


Step #2:

Double-click on the name of each recipient in your Address Book. Turn
off the option that reads Always send to this recipient in Microsoft
rich-text format.

This option needs to be set for each recipient of a message - if even
one has this turned on, all recipients will still get the attachment.

Note: Either of these methods should work for most users, but
sometimes nothing seems to work - yet another brilliant design
strategy by Microsoft. If you plan to be sending lots of internet
email, you should seriously consider using a mail program more suited
to the task, such as Eudora.

Note: A bug in Exchange may cause line feeds to be replaced with equal
signs when rich-text mail is disabled.

Note: NeXTstep email also supports rich text, but NeXT's designers
were bright enough to include a button to allow the user to choose
between NeXT mail, and non-NeXT mail (plain text).

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Remove the Equal Signs that Appear in Exchange

Last Modified: sometime in 1995

Let me guess; You've figured out how to turn off Rich Text in Exchange so
you can send email to anyone on the Internet without the useless
WINMAIL.DAT file, but now Exchange has put an equals sign "=" at the end of
each line. To
fix this bug in Exchange, do the following:

*Open the Internet Mail Properties window, and click on the General tab.

*Select Message Format, and then Character Set.

*Change the character set from ISO-8859-2 to US ASCII.