off-topic Re: [Mimedefang] Weird issue with Outlook + "Rich Text" + attachments

[Kevin A. McGrail]

Rich Text Attachments (i.e. winmail.dat) are not readable on email clients
other than Outlook (at least to the average user).

See MANY webpages about it, notably
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197066/EN-US/

KAM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kris Deugau" <kdeugau at vianet.ca>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:22 AM
Subject: [Mimedefang] Weird issue with Outlook + "Rich Text" + attachments


> I just had a customer report that mail sent from MS Outlook clients
> (Outlook 2000 I think) in "Rich Text" (RTF?) format, with attachments,
> through a server I set up for them, arrives with no attachment.
>
> Plaintext mail with attachments goes through just fine.  The IT guy that
> called me wasn't certain if HTML mail showed the same problem.
>
> Has anyone heard of attachments getting dropped from certain client-side
> email formats when they shouldn't be?
>
> I'm fairly sure this is not a MIMEDefang issue - this is apparently a
> long-standing issue that happened with a much older server (sendmail
> 8.9.something) I had set up some time ago, and seems to have continued
> with the machine I recently set up as a replacement (running sendmail
> 8.12.something, with MIMEDefang to add a footer to outgoing mail).  I
> was careful to disable/comment out any sections of the default
> mimedefang-filter that might have done something like that - but I'm
> never entirely certain I haven't missed something when I get a report of
> Weird Things Happening.
>
> -kgd
> -- 
> Get your mouse off of there!  You don't know where that email has been!
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