The winmail.dat file is from somebody trying to send MS RTF (Rich Text
Format) messages with fonts, colors, etc across the Internet. Internet mail
(SMTP) is plain text messaging. So the sender's MS Exchange server takes all
the formatting instructions and drops them into an attachment named
winmail.dat. The idea is that a MS Exchange server on the other end (since
we all run MS Exchange as our mail server, right?) will put it all back
together again. Non-MS Exchange servers just treat it as an attachment.

Many network admins disable that RTF stuff from hitting the 'net as a
courtesy. The default is on, but their admin could turn it off if he/she
desired.

TomC
tcarrington@relitech.com
http://volksweb.relitech.com
85 Vanagon Crew Cab
82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion
65 Notchback

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Alcock [SMTP:dgalcock@HEWITT.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 10:43 AM
> To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:      Re: Read: 81 Westy fridge problem
>
> Just what is winmail.dat and why does it keep arriving in my
> mailbox?????????
>
> Cheers,
> Doug '84 Westy
> Toronto, Canada
>
>
>
> From: Rich Young <rich@ECODRAGON.COM> on 01/13/2000 10:27 AM
>
> Please respond to Rich Young <rich@ECODRAGON.COM>
>
> To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> cc:
> Client:
> Subject:  Read: 81 Westy fridge problem
>
>