A winmail.dat file/attachment is the result of the Outlook client's encapsulation of its internal rich text format. The underlying document is not a MSword document proper. This MS proprietary format is understood by other MS clients/applications, but mostly not the rest of the world.
I have no problem with .doc/.docx with K-9. The attachments appear as they should, and there are a range of Android apps that can open them. I don't use MS anything so am guessing a bit, but suspect that a MSword (.doc/.docx) document isn't actually being attached to the message. Rather it may be being opened in outlook, transformed to the outlook RTF format and then encapsulated when that document is sent from outlook as a message. See MS's answer on what to do if (non-MS) recipients are receiving winmail.dat attachments. <https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Recipients-receive-a-winmaildat-attachment-1735ba97-39b8-40d4-ba17-0e0150ef87a8?CorrelationId=962a64e3-2990-443c-8e25-7829c274739a&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US> ------------ Original Message ------------ > Date: Friday, May 08, 2015 10:04:24 AM -0700 > From: Cindy <[email protected]> > > k9 used to accept word documents just fine. The document still > shows up fine out on the web and on my desktop, just not k9 so I > don't think it is totally an Outlook thing. Either way, what can > be done to get k9 to go back to accepting word documents > correctly and not turning them into a winmail.dat file? > > Thank you, > Cindy > > On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 10:03:07 PM UTC-5, Seth Holmes wrote: > >> IIRC, that's an Outlook thing. >> >> On May 5, 2015 5:30:13 PM EDT, Cindy Backstein wrote: >>> >>> Word document attachments that come in correctly on the desktop >>> show up as winmail.dat files on my Samsung Galaxy S3. Why? >>> What can be done to fix this problem? Thanks. >>> >>> >> -- >> Seth H Holmes >> Sent from my Nexus 7 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ------------ End Original Message ------------ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
