When sending attachments through Outlook, it places them IN the actual message as a winmail.dat file or some crap and some people cant seem to open them or when they do, there is nothing in the attachment. Anyway to fix this? Please help as this is making me look bad, especially when that attachment happens to be my resume.

Also, what can be used to open winmail.dat files? Why wont the attachments get sent they way they should??? Im not sure how this works.

Perhaps it's down to yours or their OE settings. In OE ensure that you have not checked the box that says 'Do Not allow attachments to be saved or opened that may potentially contain a virus' under the security Tab and under the Send Tab try sending as Plain Text Only not HTML. Just a suggestion, try it and see. M

My friend and I have this problem. She uses Outlook, I use OE, and if she sends me an attachment I can't read it. I think there's some sort of format conflict between the two programmes (well, they're both from M$, what do we expect? 8-)) but we've never found a permanent solution. If the attachment contains text (e.g. Word doc) I have found I can pick this up via Yahoo, but once I've picked up the message in OE the attachment is lost. It doesn't work for pictures. If she 'replies' to one of my mails and attaches the file it will come through fine.

The winmail.dat file in Outlook is just information regarding the email itself. When you send mail in html or rtf format, and the recipient is not using Outlook, they will indeed get the winmail.dat file. You can prevent this by sending all mail in Plain Text format. The winmail.dat file has no effect on attachments you intend to attach. :)

Are you sure you are not sending attachments that Microsoft has marked as blocked for security reasons?? Do not confuse the security in Outlook Express with the security in Outlook. Two different programs and two different security levels. I assume you are using Outlook and if so you may want to read the link below. Here

Sorry. The link should be Here