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.

For additional information, see the MS-TNEF WINMAIL.DAT Attachments
section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...de.htm#ms-tnef
At the above link is information on several utilities that can be used
to recover the attachment if the sender can't or won't resend it in
plain text (or HTML) mode.




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


"ginahoy" wrote in message
...
My boss uses Outlook and he routinely forwards vCards to me for our
new
clients. But when I open his message in Outlook Express 6.0, there is
no
attachment. Although I don't like to use it, I have Outlook on my
computer.
In order to get the vCards, I have to open the message in Outlook. The
vCard
appears at the bottom of the message as an attachment.

Why can't I see the vCard in Outlook Express?

BTW, if I check the message properties in OE, I can see the
information
contained in the vCard at the end of the message, after all the
message
headers.