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I have Windows XP Media Center 2005 and Outlook Express 6. A friend,
using Windows 2000 Pro and Outlook 2000, has tried to forward a message
to me twice. I haven't been able to see the attachment either time -
even though the message that I receive shows up as 5341KB in size. He
showed me the message he was forwarding (it is a short video clip) and I
noticed that the attachment was listed in the body of the email so I'm
assuming that has something to do with it. He's sent other video that
I've had no problem with, just this one. Do I have something set at my
end that is preventing me from seeing the attachment? I looked in
Options and tried different security settings but still nothing. Thanks
in advance - any help will be appreciated.



Is the file extension .dat?



No, I think it was .wmv
I will check tomorrow because I told him that if it didn't come through
this time I would have him save the attachment to his hard drive and then
send me a NEW message (instead of forwarding) with the attachment.


What you received, was the extension .dat?

Is he sending Rich Text Format or Plain Text? OE can't read the Rich Text
Format and some attachments will also come in as a .dat file as well as
the message.

Also, is he using Word as the text editor? If so, have him switch to
Outlook as the text editor and send it plain text.


I couldn't see anything at all in the message body itself except the header
from the message he was forwarding (From, Sent, To, Subject lines). No
attachment was showing up. I looked at the properties of the message, and
under message source it does list an attachment "winmail.dat" (followed by
lines and lines of code). Message source also shows: Content-Type:
text/plain

He showed me the original message he was forwarding to me and the attachment
showed up IN the body of the message so I assumed this was the problem.
Today, we saved the attachment to his HD, then attached it to a new message,
he sent that one to me and I had no problem seeing that one. So I'm just
assuming it had to do with the way the attachment was attached to the
original email he was forwarding to me.