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sage into a fully formatted message – the result is plain text
plus a mysterious winmail.dat attachment.
These days RTF formatted messages have been largely replaced
by HTML formatting because it‘s more widely supported
by email software. Outlook has supported HTML formatted
emails for the last few versions and is much preferred
over the proprietary Microsoft system.
The solution is to check your Outlook settings and make sure
all messages are sent in HTML format.
Switching to HTML format
These days even Microsoft recognizes the superiority of
HTML formatted messages. The default format is HTML and
there‘s even an option to convert RTF messages to HTML
format when sending to Internet email addresses (as opposed
to intra-organization recipients). Go to Tools | Options | Mail
Format to see the default message format (should be HTML)
then click on the Internet Format to see Outlook Rich Text
option to convert messages.
Outlook - Rich text option - convert to HTML.jpg
Most Outlook users (except perhaps those in large companies)
would be using HTML formatted messages already without
even knowing it. If you have people asking about winmail.dat
messages from you then check your Outlook settings.
Individual Messages
You can control the formatting for individual messages and
override the global setting in Outlook. In Outlook 2007 this
choice is on the Options tab:
Meebo
The real-time benefits of instant messaging need no hype. If
you've used IM to communicate with friends or colleagues,
you know what a time-saver it is, and how useful it can be to
reread archived conversations. The problem is that for the
most part, the major IM networks don't talk to each other—
that's AIM, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Google's Gtalk, to name
the four biggies. Thus, you may have accounts on some or all
of them so you can talk to everyone you know.
If so, you need a multi-protocol IM client. There are several,
but it's hard to beat Meebo for sheer simplicity and price
(free). You don't need to install a thing, it's entirely Webbased.
You don't even need an account with Meebo to sign
into one IM network at a time. If you do sign up, Meebo can
log you into all four IM networks at once, with one giant
buddy list. Got more than one AIM account Multiple Gtalk
accounts You can have Meebo sign into all of them simultaneously.
The Meebo Rooms feature lets you create chat areas to use
with anyone, even guests who aren't regular Meebo users.
Inside the room, users can share media files. Some are public,
and would remind you of an old-school AOL chat from
the early '90s, but with music. Create a private, passwordprotected
room instead to chat with your coworkers. If the
room is public, you can also embed it in a Web page.
Other options: Downloadable multi-protocol IM clients
abound, including Trillian, Pidgin, and Digsby, but new Web
-based services are popping up all the time, including imo.im
and eBuddy.com.
Please do keep letting me know if this column is useful to
you, and also keep sending me your suggestions for column
topics, along with your own tips or cool downloads, so I can
share them with the Sangat here. Just email them to me at
guruka@sikhnet.com Thanks!
Outlook 2007 - mail format for single message.jpg
In Outlook 2003 the same choices are on the e-mail toolbar.
In normal practice you‘d skip over the Rich Text option entirely.
HTML is the best and most compatible choice for most
purposes. Plain text is handy for special situations like messages
to ‗Email to phone‘ gateways.
But what if someone sends you an email with a winmail.dat
attachment and you can‘t read their email Well just save the
file and upload it here http://tud.at/php/tnef/ and it will decode
it for you.
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