attachments

leon · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 1

hi all

I'm Using thunderbird and every one else is using outlook express

Now when i get an attachment from OE it comes in form of a .dat file
i have been told that to see this file i must be using OE my version is
6 sp1 I Have also been told that there is a decoder but really do i
have to use this? i know that gnu software is out of the scope of this
news group, but really its just one email program to another the only
problem is outlook express is sending these attachments and its anoying .
other attachments are fine like program files and so forth but when
people are writing attachments though OE it is imposiable to view them.

i dont want to start using OE so is there a program to view this
information??

thanks

win98 outlook express 6 sp1

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, I · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 6

Wrong. OE sends with the file type of the attachment of the file. Either
the sender is attaching DAT files or something else is changing it.

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"leon" wrote in message
news:%23f4k9JF4EHA.4072@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> hi all
>
> I'm Using thunderbird and every one else is using outlook express
>
> Now when i get an attachment from OE it comes in form of a .dat file
> i have been told that to see this file i must be using OE my version is 6
> sp1 I Have also been told that there is a decoder but really do i have to
> use this? i know that gnu software is out of the scope of this news
> group, but really its just one email program to another the only problem
> is outlook express is sending these attachments and its anoying .
> other attachments are fine like program files and so forth but when people
> are writing attachments though OE it is imposiable to view them.
>
> i dont want to start using OE so is there a program to view this
> information??
>
> thanks
>
> win98 outlook express 6 sp1

Michael Santovec · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 182

Is the file name WINMAIL.DAT? If so, the OE won't help. In that case, the other people
are likely using Outlook (part of Office) and not Outlook Express (part of IE).

If messages are sent using the Exchange family of mail programs (includes Windows
Messaging or Outlook97/98/2000+) and the option to use Rich Text Format is selected, it
puts the RTF message (and any attached files) in an attachment called WINMAIL.DAT
(application/ms-tnef). But this attachment is useless to most other mail programs. In
some mail programs (e.g. Outlook Express), the attachment won't even be visible.

The Exchange user can turn off the RTF option for messages to selected recipients. Note
that if sending via an Exchange server, the Exchange server administrator may be
overriding the mail client settings. In this case, the administrator will need to make
changes on the server. In some cases, the Exchange server actually removes the
attachments to some recipients.

If you receive such an attachment, you may be able to use the
Fentun (TNEF Attachment Extractor) program.
http://www.fentun.com
If the author's site is unavailable, you can get a copy here:
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/files/fentun.zip
Another option is the LS-TNEF Java based TNEF Decoder
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/files/lstnef.zip

For additional information, see the MS-TNEF WINMAIL.DAT Attachments section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/decode.htm#ms-tnef

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

"leon" wrote in message
news:%23f4k9JF4EHA.4072@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> hi all
>
> I'm Using thunderbird and every one else is using outlook express
>
> Now when i get an attachment from OE it comes in form of a .dat file
> i have been told that to see this file i must be using OE my version is 6 sp1 I Have
> also been told that there is a decoder but really do i have to use this? i know that
> gnu software is out of the scope of this news group, but really its just one email
> program to another the only problem is outlook express is sending these attachments and
> its anoying .
> other attachments are fine like program files and so forth but when people are writing
> attachments though OE it is imposiable to view them.
>
> i dont want to start using OE so is there a program to view this information??
>
> thanks
>
> win98 outlook express 6 sp1

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