Outlook 2000, Calendar Invites & Winmail.dat

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Ok this is a bit of a puzzler.

We use Outlook 2000 as our email client. We use it in conjunction with a pop/smtp mail server.

When a certain users sends an invite from his outlook calendar it arrives as garbled text:

Return-Path: <email address removed>
X-Original-To: email address removed
X-Delivered-To-01-4D-46: email address removed
Received: by server address removed (Postfix, from userid 27)
id 688D56F421; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 14:18:09 +0100 (BST)
Received: from machinename removed (unknown [10.0.10.121])
by server address removed (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A61A6F408
for <email address removed>; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 14:18:08 +0100 (BST)
Reply-To: <email address removed>
From: "Karl Scott (Regional Manager)" <email address removed>
To: "Darren J McCabe" <email address removed>
Subject: martin menton holiday 2 days
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 14:19:33 +0100
Message-ID: <LCEKJMNCAJBALDFIKEBMOEJGDLAA.email address removed>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST;
charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0)
Importance: Normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869
Disposition-Notification-To: "Karl Scott (Regional Manager)" <email address removed>
X-Email-Filter-01-4D-46: 3.2.2 server address removed
X-Virus-Checked-01-4D-46: 0 Anti-virus engine 4.06.0, released 05 June 2006, 123766 virus identities.
Status:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 9.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
ATTENDEE;CN=3D"Darren J =
McCabe";ROLE=3DREQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=3DTRUE:MAILTO:email address removed=

ORGANIZER:MAILTO:email address removed
DTSTART;VALUE=3DDATE:20060704
DTEND;VALUE=3DDATE:20060706
LOCATION:stretford
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
SEQUENCE:0
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000E0AD67DD749FC6010000000000000=
000100
00000D5F323F04D66AB42AD2991173308F3A5
DTSTAMP:20060704T131930Z
DESCRIPTION:When: 04 July 2006 00:00 to 06 July 2006 00:00 (GMT) =
Greenwich
Mean Time : Dublin\, Edinburgh\, Lisbon\, London.\nWhere:
stretford\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\n
SUMMARY:martin menton holiday 2 days
PRIORITY:5
CLASS:PUBLIC
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

I have removed any identifiers from the above text for spam reasons.

Anyone else who sends the appointments they come through fine, however when anyone clicks the ACCEPT button in the email, we simply get an email back with an attachment of Winmail.dat

The contents of the file are garbelled text:

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As I said at the beginning this is all a bit bizarre and I dont have clue how to solve it.
 
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