Microsoft exchange & bloated attachments

[Jim Pearl]

Gee Doug - I wonder who that person was? (ahem). Yep - I think it's me guys 
and I THINK I've got it fixed! Please tell me this is so!

As for OFF by default - I don't think it was. Either that or while fumbling 
around trying to set up this client I turned it ON. It's now OFF and I'm 
hoping it's all better. I'll tell ya' this I don't much like Exchange and 
if this is their response to Notes they're in trouble!

P.S. Thanks to Brad for what I believe is the solution and to Doug for 
alerting me OFFLINE and working with me on this. If anyone has any follow 
up comments on this "problem" please take them up with me OFF-LINE so as to 
keep the "noise" down... TIA!

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>From: 	Doug Rorem[SMTP:rorem at mana.eecs.uic.edu]
Sent: 	Wednesday, February 28, 1996 2:09 PM
To: 	diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
Subject: 	RE: Microsoft exchange & bloated attachments

>----------
>>From: 	Brad Martin[SMTP:btm at usa.nai.net]
>>Sent: 	Wednesday, February 28, 1996 4:16 AM
>>To: 	diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
>>Subject: 	RE: Blow off valve
>>
=SNIP=
>It's usually a good idea to uncheck this box for Internet mail addresses
>unless the sender knows that the receiver uses the Exchange client.
>
>--Kent

I had worked with someone on this problem (we use Sun workstations here
and are thankfully immune from generating this stuff). When they first 
turned
off RTF (rich text formatting) they got rid of the MIME encoded attachment 
:

Content-Type: application/ms-tnef
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

eJ8+IiQEAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAENgAQAAgAAAAIAAgAB  
BJAG
AGQBAAABAAAADAAAAAMAADADAAAACwAPDgAAAAACAf8PAQAAAGMAAAAAAAAAgSsfpL6jEBmd  
bgDd
AQ9UAgAAAABkaXlfZWZpQGNvdWxvbWIuZW5nLm9oaW8tc3RhdGUuZWR1AFNNVFAAZGl5X2Vm  
aUBj
.......

but then their mailer started uuencoding the WINMAIL.DAT attachment.

begin 600 WINMAIL.DAT
M>)\^(CH"`0:0" `$```````!``$``0>0!@`(````Y 0```````#H``$-@ 0`
.....

I certainly hope Microsoft has this stuff OFF by default. I guess there
should be a FAQ in every list on the net as to how to turn it completely 
off.
It creates large attachments which really have no utility on Internet 
mailing
lists (i.e. who cares if their 3 line message is formatted with fancy 
fonts?)
It certainly creates a lot of needless extra overhead when you figure that
stuff is being sent out to every subscriber on the list.

==SNIP==


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