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Subject:Re: unrequested attachments may contain virus From:"Bailey, Doug S" <dsbailey -at- INGR -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:21:54 -0600
>>"WINMAIL.DAT" is an attachment which is the brainchild of Billy G and the
>>boys from Redmond. It's automagically attached to all outgoing messages from
>>MS Mail based systems, especially those involving either NT or 95, and no
>>one has yet come up with a reliable way of shutting it off. Though I've seen
>>no small number of solutions offered, none has reliably worked. And so every
>Um, how about unchecking the "Always send to this recipient in
>Microsoft Exchange rich-text format?" check box? This is found in
>the properties window for a given email address. If you tell it not
>to send the rich text formatting info, you shouldn't get the WINMAIL.DAT
>file.
