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Can't see attachment
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. |
Can't see attachment
"DG" wrote in message
... 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? |
Can't see attachment
"DGuess" wrote in message ... "DG" wrote in message ... 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. |
Can't see attachment
"DG" wrote in message
... "DGuess" wrote in message ... "DG" wrote in message ... 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. |
Can't see attachment
"DGuess" wrote in message ... "DG" wrote in message ... "DGuess" wrote in message ... "DG" wrote in message ... 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. |
Can't see attachment
"DG" wrote in message
... 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. yep I'd say that was it. |
Can't see attachment
The winmail.dat attachment indicates that your correspondent was using
Outlook (not Express) and its RTF format, which is unreadable in Outlook Express. Ask him to send correspondence to you using Plain Text or HTML and not RTF (which is intended only for another Outlook client). OLEXP: Cannot View Embedded Objects .rtf, .etf, .dat Attachments: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=166439 -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6 Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped. Thanks. "DG" wrote in message ... "DGuess" wrote in message ... "DG" wrote in message ... "DGuess" wrote in message ... "DG" wrote in message ... 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. |
Can't see attachment
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 he http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...les/fentun.zip Another option is the LS-TNEF Java based TNEF Decoder http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...les/lstnef.zip 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 -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "DG" wrote in message ... "DGuess" wrote in message ... "DG" wrote in message ... "DGuess" wrote in message ... "DG" wrote in message ... 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. |
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