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My attatchments sent to Mac users from Outlook turn into winmail.dat files. Why can't they open them?

This is due to Outlook decrypting the file in RTF format. To avoid this issue you may change your Outlook settings by following these instructions:

  1. Open up your Outlook email client.
  2. Click on File located in the upper toolbar.
  3. Select the Options setting.
  4. From here, select the Mail category.
  5. Now, under Compose messages, you want to ensure the HTML or Plain Text option is selected for the Compose messages in this format...
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Turning Off Contact Info from Mail (OS X El Capitan)

Turning Off Contact Info from Mail (OS X El Capitan)

With Apple OS X El Capitan (10.11), Apple introduced a feature that picks out email addresses from the Mail application and populates it within Contacts. It is meant to serve as a nice assistant when drafting emails however it is perhaps a little too eager.

When using the Mail application at the University, this feature will pull information from the signature line of mailing lists that generally have the name of the list as part of it. Mail will pull that address and associate it with the...

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