How to Download Embedded Images as Attachments in Microsoft Outlook. Author: Chris Lee, Senior Director, Information Technology With the rise of smartphone email clients such as Apple Mail and similar, many email messages that you receive in Outlook will contain images – but they are not sent as attachments.

Last year we migrated our environment from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2010.

As such, we’re using Outlook 2011 on our Mac clients.

Set Default Mail App. This tool lets you choose Outlook for Mac as your default mail application. Then Outlook opens a new email whenever you click on a mailto: link in an email or website. Reset Recent Addresses. This tool lets you reset recent addresses that Outlook has stored, and delete recent addresses all at once, instead of one at a time. Step 3: Preview and save. Once the scanning and repair process is completed, you will get the preview of repaired files. Click on 'Save Repaired File' to save the repaired files. Before doing so, you must select the format of the file, its path, and click on 'OK.' You will get a message saying that the file has been saved at the desired location. Dec 24, 2020 Click the 3 dots on the top-right side. Go to More toolsExtensions. Select the Add-on/extension one-by-one and click Remove to remove it. Click Remove again to confirm it. Now go to Outlook on the Web application and download the attachments. Note: The process is the similar for other web browsers too.

Some users accounts would just keep downloading.. after much head scratching & hair tearing we found the issue.

It appears that within the folders that were constantly trying to download contained e-mails with BinHex attachments, as per the linked document this would be the attachment format that a Mac Lotus client would in some situations send out.

To resolve,

1. Login to OWA as the affected user.
2. Search across the whole mailbox for .hqx
3. Download all the attachments if wanted.
4. Delete the offending e-mails.
5. Log out of OWA.
6. Open Outlook 2011 & sync.

Others have verified the issue with me. Strangely when using OWA, Outlook on a PC over MAPI, Outlook on a PC HTTP over RPC or Mail using EWS this problem does not exist.

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Laurie writes: I have a Mac, iPhone and iPad and I use Apple Mail. When my husband sends or forwards an email to me from Outlook using his PC, the attachments arrive as “winmail.dat” and I can’t open them.

Every search I have made on this subject says that this is just a problem between Outlook and Mail. Many forums recommend 3rd party software to open the attachments. You have got to be kidding! We shouldn’t have to be bouncing around with multiple programs just to do something as simple as see an attachment.

Is there a setting I am missing?

Hi Laurie! Nope, you’re not missing anything—and yes, there are occassions when Outlook and the Mac’s Mail app don’t play well together.

Specifically, Outlook has its own, unique method for formatting email messages that many other email clients can’t quite decode.

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When that happens, the body of the message turns into an attachment named “winmail.dat”—and no, your Mac can’t open it without help from a third-party program. Annoying, but true.

Too many mail messages arriving as “winmail.dat” attachments? Windows users can set Outlook to disable the culprit: “Rich Text” formatting.

The good news is that your husband can set Outlook to deactivate its so-called “Rich Text Format” (which lets Outlook users compose messages with fancy fonts and other features) when sending messages to non-Outlookers.

Here’s how…

Note: The steps below are for Outlook 2013; the instructions may (and probably will) differ for earlier versions of Outlook.

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• Open Outlook, click the File menu, then select Options.
• Click the Mail tab on the left side of the Outlook Options window, find the “Compose messages” section, then change the setting for “Compose messages in this format” from “Rich Text” to “HTML” or “Plain Text.”
• Does your husband want to keep his “Rich Text” setting? If so, he can scroll down to the “Message format” heading, find the “When sending messages in Rich Text format to Internet recipients” setting, then select “Convert to HTML format.”

OK, but what about mail messages you’ve already received with cryptic “winmail.dat” attachments?

Well, there are (as you mentioned) several apps in the Mac App Store that’ll open winmail.dat attachments for you, but they all cost a few bucks.

A highly recommended free option, though, is a program called “TNEF’s Enough.” Just download, install and launch the app, then drag a winmail.dat file onto TNEF’s Enough dock icon to open the attachment.

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