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Help with E-Mail error code 550 5.7.1

Dan1973 — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:33:32 +0000

Can anyone help me please. I am trying to send an email to a business account but I keep getting the mails bounced back to me with the following error code. I have also tried to email someone else at their headquarters and get the same message……

reason: 550 5.7.1 Requested action not taken: message refused)

I really am a non techie so any help you could give me would be much appreciated

Thanks in advance

Winmail.dat attachment on Mac Laptop with Entourage

SbElectric — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:31:25 +0000

Hello, all Technical pros – seek your help!

I have Windows XP desktop with Office 2007 and a Mac Laptop installed with Mac Office 2008. On Mac laptop I have regular Windows Word 2008/Excel 2008/PowerPonit 2008 and Windows Entourage 2008 for Mac (works just like Office e-mail). I can access my regular e-mail on both machines (On Windows via Office 2007) and on Mac via Entourage 2008.

The big problem I am facing is when I attach a document (Word or Excel) then the attachment comes as Winmail.dat file as attachment on Mac laptop (via Entourage). I can not open this file. But the reverse operation is working fine, That is, when I attach a Excel in Entourage e-mail then I can read it fine on Windows Office 2007 e-mail. Any suggestion or ideas how I can open the .dat file?
Thank you.

What is the winmail.dat attachment in emails?

Tonynz — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:54:41 +0000

how do you open winmail