Recently I had to find a way how to disable sending RTF based emails via Microsoft Exchange to recipients that do not have Exchange and that subsequently receive winmail.dat extensions for attachments added to the email due to Exchange's RTF parsing logic.

Seems like it turned out to be trivial, but very hard to find if you do not know where to look. Follow these steps:

1. You can do this either by opening the Outlook Contact, or from a new email.
2. Hover your mouse over the email recipient, and in the popup click Outlook Properties in the bottom right drop down icon.
   

   

3. In the Outlook Contact page, hover your mouse over the email address again, and click Outlook Properties again from the bottom right drop down icon.
   

   

4. In the email properties dialog box, select Send Plain Text only.
   

   

5. Click ok and you are done.

...they will entertain themselves for many precious minutes...

This weekend marked the first consistent period of above 22C temperatures and sunshine. Truly remarkable... We had winter up to end of May.

At $1.50 per litre for petrol at the moment in Canada for 91 octane, and at these consumption rates, I am in for a bitter sweet period... This was after about 150km of driving in the city...

If you run Ubuntu Linux and using Perl's LWP::Simple's get function to fetch the content of an SSL encrypted web site, make sure to install libcrypt-ssleay-perl to enable SSL support for LWP.