When someone sends an e-mail to me with attachments and it is sent to other
people too, the attachements are not there. If they re-send the same e-mail
to me only, I get the attachement. Any ideas?

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, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail), 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://TechHelp.Santovec.us/decode.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://TechHelp.Santovec.us



"Bob" <Bob@newsgroup> wrote in message
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> When someone sends an e-mail to me with attachments and it is sent to
> other
> people too, the attachements are not there. If they re-send the same
> e-mail
> to me only, I get the attachement. Any ideas?