Date:         Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:06:50 -0500
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Using SAS to email through a macro
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I am fwd this internal report of a problem
that has arisen since we changed our e-mail system recently.

My HelpDesk colleague uses a SAS program to do a bulk e-mail
GAL: our internal Global Address List.

Ronald J. Fehd, IT Spec
team lead: Office of Statistical Software
           and Knowledge Worker Support
HelpDesk Level 3: SAS
CDC SAS site representative

> Subject:      SAS emails.

> <person> is working out of <state>
> and informed me that the SAS Licensing emails
> that are being sent to the people at the state
> are having the attachments stripped
> and replaced with a winmail.dat file.

> It appears that the people
> who aren't in our GAL are able to receive the message
> with the attachments
> but the people who are in the GAL get the attachments stripped.

> This is a known issue with Microsoft
> on messages being sent to mail-enabled contacts in the GAL.
> The recommended fix is
> to have the contact's profile Use MAPI rich text format option
> checked under the Exchange Advanced tab of the profile.