The above options will fix the Outlook Winmail. However, if the problem arises because of a corrupted PST file, you can resolve the issue by using these manual techniques. You will need a professional tool to repair the damaged Outlook data file and fix the attachment issue. And fix the winmail dat email attachment issue in Outlook. The tool effectively repairs the damaged PST files and restores complete mailbox data to its original state.
Apart from that, if any issue arises because of the corrupt Outlook PST file, the utility will fix the problem effectively. The Outlook Winmail. So, the obvious solution to the problem is to choose the HTML or Plain text format instead of the rich text format.
However, if Outlook receives a winmail. Your email address will not be published. Skip to content. How to Fix the Outlook Winmail. Fix Winmail. Click on the File button and select the Options Now, choose the Mail option available in the left section.
Now, scroll down to the Message Format section and click on the When sending messages in Rich Text format to the Internet Recipients field. To stop Outlook from sending winmail. The winmail. The file is attached to the email because it contains instructions on how other email clients should format the text. Warning: Editing your Windows registry incorrectly or making a mistake can cause irreversible damage to your operating system.
Right click on the Windows logo in the bottom left corner, click Run. Once you have added the name, hit Enter to apply the changes. Outlook should no longer be sending winmail. Autocomplete is when you start typing an email address in a new message, and their email address comes up as a suggestion. The sending format is saved for every contact in your autocomplete list. However, having followed the above instructions, I noted that I am not set up for Rich Text, but still get those attachements and cannot open proper attachments.
Thank you Gordan for a clear and concise fix! Then the problem came back! The missing piece was the removal of the address from the auto-complete. BTW it was great to hear an Aussie accent on a how-to video. This is the first site that has given a registry fix. It works. Outlook is now a useful email client again. Thank you. Some of my customers i suspect with older pcs are experiencing not receiving the pdf of an invoice I send them, only the winmail. I have done everything you have described here, the HTML settings, tried Plain text, did the regedit, cleared the auto complete, rebooted, but the same problem persists with some of my customers.
Can you please offer any more advice on this issue. Many Thanks. I have been trying to solve this winmail. If, like me, you use Thunderbird and are receiving attachments in a winmail. This seemed to work for me. Thanks that worked a teat. Quick, easy and worked first time! All my settings were right for the first part and adjusting the registry did the trick. This has been bugging me for way too long so thanks again!
My problem is not with sending winmail. I can receive pdf files from third parties with no problem. However, the emails I get from one office go out from them as pdf files but come in to me as winmail.
It works. Joyfully, I report the problem is easy to fix. This seems to be an outlook issue on the windows sending device, not the Mac receiving device. The recipients address in outlook auto-fill somehow gets corrupted.
The issue occured for me when emailing a PDF attachment from a windows PC running outlook to a Mac computer running outlook For years, I have used multiple outlook versions on Windows and Macs, and I have never encountered this issue before.
Strange occurance, but easily remedied. I was sending a file from my laptop to my phone so I could print it. Had the windat issue so I first deleted the newly downloaded windat file opener app from my Android phone.
Then I deleted myself from the autofill application in Outlook on my laptop and that worked. I only know that the windat attachment issue started appearing after I downloaded the windat app on my phone. Thank you for your advice! Outlook has behaved itself nicely for months and recently, all of a sardine it started sending winmail. Thank you! My email attachments to two contacts all of a sudden were being received as winmail.
Deleting the contacts, and then readding them solves this problem. If the above solution in the article is not working, then I highly recommend contacting Microsoft support on the issue as it is related to the application. So I am the one with Outlook and my messages, only very recently, have started to arrive with any PDF in windat mail format???
Any other ideas…. This appears to be a Microsoft setting issue. Check out this post in the Microsoft Support Forums. Does not work for Outlook Only works with new email addresses. I have a client with Outlook attempting to send emails to another client with Apple Mail 8. I tried sending the same email from my machine running Outlook in HTML to Client B on the Apple machine and was able to see the email correctly with the attachments showing. If the problem was not resolved by the provided Micorosoft post.
Then I would recommend contacting Microsoft for further help with that issue. They are the authors of this software and can help provide a working solution. I already have my emails sent in HTML and the convert box in step 6 was already checked. The problem happens anyway. However, if I send the email in text mode, the PDF file is not converted to a dat file. Text mode appears to be the only workaround.
I am using Microsoft Outlook for communication with buyers. I am facing some problem with my email account as i am getting email attachments with winmail. My other coleagues receiving the same email with pdf attachment, while i am getting the email with winmail. Please confirm the method how I can resolve this issue. Has your buyers followed the steps to prevent outlook from converting the file to a winmail. Even if you make these changes they would have to as well.
Get web hosting from a company that is here to help. Sign up today! Community Blog. Configure Outlook to prevent Winmail. Login to Outlook , then click on File to go to the Account Information page. Click on Options. Next, in the column at left click on Mail.
Then go to the section labeled Compose messages.
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