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I am trying to send a file that does not have an extension to a recipient.
Is this possible with Outlook? The recipient typically receives the attachment renamed to attachment.dat. I've tried turning off the "Always send messages in Microsoft Exchange rich test format". Now, the recipient's client software typically saves the file as attachment.txt. Other than zipping the attachment file, is there any consistent way of getting a file through without an extension? -- Gerald Boutin |
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Gerald Boutin wrote:
I am trying to send a file that does not have an extension to a recipient. Is this possible with Outlook? The recipient typically receives the attachment renamed to attachment.dat. I've tried turning off the "Always send messages in Microsoft Exchange rich test format". Now, the recipient's client software typically saves the file as attachment.txt. It may be the recipient's mail client adding the file extension, but I can't imagine why, when they save it, they can't save it without an extention. I should think all they'd have to do it erase the ".dat" or ".txt". -- Brian Tillman |
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Brian,
You are correct about the recipient having the ability to rename the file on saving. However, someone has to remember to provide these instructions and the user has to actually read/follow them. I was hoping we could find a way to eliminate these steps of user involvement. This is a problem some of our software guys are having in sending updated software files to customers. In this one particular case, adding the .dat extension caused some noticeably bad things to happen to the customer's system as when they installed the update file, they were actually overwriting another legitimate file (same filename but with an actual .dat extension). In doing a bit more testing today, it turns out that part of what I had said in my earlier email was not quite right. That's what I get for assuming that something that someone tells me is actually correct. Outlook does not add the extension to the attachment in sending. As you suggested, it is added after the email is received (even with Outlook). So the "rich-text option" possibility turns out to be somewhat of a red herring. On reception, Outlook itself adds the .dat extension (rich-text option or not). For other typical email clients such as web based client software, you end up with either the dreaded winmail.dat attachment (with rich-text option on) or the filename with an extension added such as .txt if the rich-text option is turned off. This is the attachment portion of the raw mail file that is sent/received. You can see that the filename is still intact at this point. ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01C63DD5.CDCD4CB0 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="master" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="master" I was hoping that someone might know how to make this work. Perhaps, some way to convince Outlook to use some other encoding that doesn't cause the filename to be mangled or ??? -- Gerald Boutin "Brian Tillman" wrote in message ... Gerald Boutin wrote: I am trying to send a file that does not have an extension to a recipient. Is this possible with Outlook? The recipient typically receives the attachment renamed to attachment.dat. I've tried turning off the "Always send messages in Microsoft Exchange rich test format". Now, the recipient's client software typically saves the file as attachment.txt. It may be the recipient's mail client adding the file extension, but I can't imagine why, when they save it, they can't save it without an extention. I should think all they'd have to do it erase the ".dat" or ".txt". -- Brian Tillman |
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