Hi Bob,
Short answer : You could say that the problem lies on your end.
(of course it depends which end one is on (g)
More in a moment.
You may want to look at these articles:
Email received from a sender using Outlook includes a Winmail.dat attachment
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278061
How to Prevent the Winmail.dat File from Being Sent to Internet Users
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138053
PDF being received as winmail.dat
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/384acc19-b611-4e76-82c2-3a590521fc35/
.RTF- and PDF files typically convert to Winmail.dat when certain conditions are met.
(As described in above articles)
You solution may be:
1.Use Outlook to receive and open this mail.
2.Have the client send the documents as .DOC or .DOCX
3.Have the client zip the .RTF or PDF files
Communication with the client as to preferences, may need to take place.
Peter E.
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From: "lswpubrw"
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 4:35 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [PCSOFT] e-mail problem
I've just encountered a strange (to me) e-mail problem. I'm running W7 Home Premium using Live Mail. Ordinarily people send me Word and Excel attachments that show up with the paper clip and the name of the file under the header and I click on it and it opens. Today someone sent me a file that had the paper clip put no window under the header with file names, that is, no clue as where the attachment was. I then looked at the e-mail on my webmail access and sure enough there is an attachment, but it's a file called winmail.dat and my computer doesn't know what to do with a dat extension. I found the winmaildat.com tool online and used that to open the file. The file contained the 4 pdfs that the client sent me. Is this a problem at my end or the client's?
Bob Warasila
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