At 00:03 1/14/00 , Alistair Bell wrote: >at home, using my old computer, an '89 SE/30, OS 7.5, (dedicated mail >reader), stucco's winmail.dat atttachments hangs my Eudora 3.1. Interesting -- so it's the MAC version of Eudora that chokes on Winmail.dat. I just checked their website and found no mentions of problems with receiving attachments... >Why do people configure their mail clients to send such unwanted dross? As a rule, they don't. I believe that Outlook Express (the mailer that comes with Win9x) is shipped configured to send messages as HTML or otherwise fancied up. For that matter, Eudora glosses the matter over by glibly talking about "styled" text and not explaining the various tradeoffs. But Winmail.dat is unique to -- and useful only to -- uSoft clients talking to each other. For all the rest of us, it's just a pain. david David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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