Barry
Tue Jun 29 04:41:52 CDT 2004
On 29/6/04 12:03 am, in article 22c3301c45d64$19f5d2f0$a001280a@phx.gbl,
"Gordon Werner" <gwerner@nwlink.com> wrote:
> Hi there ...
>
> Using Entourage 2004 on my Mac, I am now able to create meetings nad
> invite windows users ... however ... if they respond to me, or invite me to a
> meeting, all I get is a winmail.dat attachment along with some text about
> the meeting.
>
> I do not see the info bar where I can accept or decline.
>
> Do I have somthing misset? or perhaps do my Windows friends?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Gordon
Winmail.dat and/or application/ms-tnef files are sent by Windows users of
Outlook or Exchange who have their mail clients set up to use ?RTF¹ instead
of plain text or HTML.
Usually they only contain a styled text version of the message you have just
read in plain text, but they can contain encoded attachments that you can¹t
usually get to.
Fortunately, there is an excellent little application that lets you read
these files and extract the attachments, called ³TNEF¹s Enough², by Josh
Jacob. Here¹s a link that should let you find it on VersionTracker:
<
http://www.versiontracker.com/mp/new_search.m?productDB=mac&mode=Quick&OS_F
ilter=MacOSX&search=tnef& ;x=14&y=8
Better still, contact you correspondent and ask them to reset their mail
client prefs to use plain text, or at worst, HTML.
--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
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http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>