winmail.dat files

[Matthew B. Watts]

-----Original Message-----
From: Frederic Breitwieser <frederic.breitwieser at xephic.dynip.com>
To: diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu <diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 7:50 AM
Subject: winmail.dat files


>Not to start a flame war, large discussion, or distract the list... however
>I think a lot of us would appreciate those of you running MS-Mail,
>MS-Outlook, or MS-Express if you could kindly turn off "Rich text format",
>"Mime", "Text Formatting" and other options that don't yield pure ascii to
>the DIYEFI list.

>In the MS products, you create an address book entry, and call it something
>like "DIYEFI" or whatever you prefer.  Then for that address entry, you can
>turn all this "stuff" off, and send pure ascii.  Whether you use the
>address book entry or not to send messages, MS products check the address
>book for the same internet address, and uses the same settings, so its no
>additional work on your part, other than to set it up.


Plus, if you reply to the list, set your mailer to send in the same format
as received--I think that's an option for Outlook, maybe others as
well.

>We appreciate it :)