I do a lot of MS word documents/contracts on my computer to send to clients. I always send myself a copy of it too. So when it is coming from me, to me, I can guarantee it is leaving as a .doc, and it comes back as a .doc online but on my phone it comes in as a winmail.dat.
I used to be able to open and read my own .doc contracts on my phone but it changed a while back (can't tell you the exact date it changed) but something has changed with k9 to cause this problem since the document is fine out on the web and when it comes into my desktop. Since k9 used to be able to open these just fine, I know that they should be able to fix whatever is causing the problem now. Even if no one has the answer at present, k9 needs to look into changes they have made that might be causing the issue and fix it back to the way it was. Are the k9 coders reading these posts to know of the problem? thank you, Cindy On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 12:49:53 PM UTC-5, Richard wrote: > 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] <javascript:>> > > > > 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.
