[wellylug] avoid mailers that generate winmail.dat attachments :)

[Pizbit]

Erm, what exactly are these winmail.dat attachments?
I've never come across them. Certainly not bothering me then, however people(in 
general, not the person who I'm reply too:)) who send emails twice or have the 
wrong time on their computers do.

Michael Dittmer wrote:
> You can blame users for the faults of a sysadmin. Since it is a "server
> only" feature, users can't do anything about it.
> 
> If the sysadmin hasn't turned that "feature" off, then there is nothing a
> user can do about it.
> 
> If you want to complain, do it to the sysadmin of the server.
> 
> RGDS
> 
> Michael
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
> [mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Andrej
> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 7:46 PM
> To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] avoid mailers that generate winmail.dat attachments
> :)
> 
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:59, Ian Beardslee wrote:
> 
> 
>>More to the point why aren't you using a mailer that can deal
>>with them properlike ??
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q138053
> 
> Because I'm a very happy Linux-user and can't see a good 
> reason to compensate for a poorly set-up Mickey$leuth server?
> 
>