How do I setup the Out of Office Assisant for a Shared Departmental Account?
See http://cs.its.uiowa.edu/Exchange/outofoffice.shtml#shared for instructions. When I receive mail from a colleague using Outlook an attachment shows up as a file named winmail.dat in my Eudora email client and is unreadable. This problem is caused by the Outlook user sending messages in rich text format. Microsoft Outlook sends rich text format attachments in a format called MS-TNEF. Most other email programs cannot read this nonstandard format and so only see an attachment named winmail.dat. If the Outlook user changes their mail format option to send messages in plain text or HTML format this problem does not occur. See the article at http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/microsoft-outlook-tnref.html for more details. Using rich text format in Outlook also causes the attachment to appear in the body of the message as explained in the FAQ “When I send a message with an attachment, the attachment icon appears in the body of the message.
See http://cs.its.uiowa.edu/Exchange/outofoffice.shtml#shared for instructions. When I receive mail from a colleague using Outlook an attachment shows up as a file named winmail.dat in my Eudora email client and is unreadable. This problem is caused by the Outlook user sending messages in rich text format. Microsoft Outlook sends rich text format attachments in a format called MS-TNEF. Most other email programs cannot read this nonstandard format and so only see an attachment named winmail.dat. If the Outlook user changes their mail format option to send messages in plain text or HTML format this problem does not occur. See the article at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Winmail.dat_attachments for more details.
