Before you send the e-mail, format it as "Plain Text".

For a single message, when you're composing the message, click "Format",
"Plain Text".

If you want to change the setting for all e-mails, at the main Outlook menu,
click "Tools", "Options", then click the Mail Format tab to change the
default setting.

If you want to change the setting only for certain individuals (I do this
for all AOL recipients), go to the individual contact, and click the check
box on the lower right that says "Plain Text".

This worked for me, hope it helps.

Larry.

-----Original Message-----
From: William Knight [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 4:14 PM
Subject: Outlook2000 / Attachment issue...


I have used various forms of Outlook for awhile now <including work> and
have never encountered this issue before but.

When sending an email and attaching a regular file <in this case, a word
document> the recipient is left with the following line "  << File:
ATT02299.ATT >>" or some variant but does not receive the attachment.

Or, if sent to an email based account <such as Hotmail> I recieve the
attachment with a .dat extension.

The program is configured as Internet Only and I have gone through the
options tirelessly however I cannot seem to solve this.  If I send the
message to myself, however, the attachments are there and complete.

What is causing this? The same account setup in OExpress is sending these
attachments with no problems.

Any help would be greatly appreciated... I am realizing this is probably
some simple setting but it is driving me a bit nuts at this point.

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