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How to stop Win 10 with Outlook sending attachments as Winmail.dat
I have just joined this forum. Am an XP user but have been asked by a friend to help set up e-mail on a Win 10 laptop running MS Outlook.
Mostly it works fine but sometimes encodes attachments as Winmail.dat files which recipients can not open or use.
This problem is widely reported on internet.
I have tried every solution I have read, without success. These include ensuring that Outlook sends messages as HTML or Plain Text (NOT as Rich Text) and applying a change to the registry to inhibit poduction of Winmail.dat files. Yet still the problem persists.
Sending to another Outlook address is OK. Sending to a GMail address works but sending to a BTInternet address never works in that all attachments (doc / docx / jpg etc.) get sent as Winmail.dat which I can not open. Moreover I use MS Outlook Express to access my e-mail accounts and this program fails even to recognise Winmail.dat!
It seems as if certain ISPs interact with Outlook and cause it to send Winmail.dat attachments.
Is anyone aware please of a hard and fast solution which guarantees that OUTLOOK will NEVER generate Winmail.dat attachments?
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