Also too, using IE on my phone and going to Mediacom's web mail interface (instead of going through K9) I can see and open the word document just fine so it is not my phone but k9 that is causing the problem.
Cindy On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 4:57:22 PM UTC-5, Cindy wrote: > **** As a doc online how? A Microsoft email application, perhaps? What > does a webmail interface show you? > > I was rereading your email and noticed that I didn't answer the above > question you asked. > > I use IE and go to my webmail online. From there I open the email and see > my attachment. It is listed as a .doc I can then click on it and click > view. Then it opens on my computer perfectly fine as the .doc it is > supposed to be. But on my phone with k9, when I click on show attachment, > all it shows is the winmail.dat file. > > > Cindy > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Dennis Rockwell > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 5:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [k-9-mail] word document attachment coming in as webmail.dat > > On 05/12/2015 06:09 PM, Cindy wrote: > > 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. > > As a doc online how? A Microsoft email application, perhaps? What does a > webmail interface show you? > > A Microsoft app will show you a winmail.dat as a doc file. > > > 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. > > Your Microsoft desktop? On the web as viewed via Outlook? > > Microsoft has a long history of creating applications that violate > standards (they do NOT write the standards, the code they write is NOT > gospel) and hiding that from the users. > > > 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. > > I can confidently assure you that the K-9 developers (I'm NOT one of > them) have no interest in writing and maintaining the code for converting > a .doc to a winmail.dat. > > > 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? > > Please email me a doc file and cc yourself. I will look at it via gmail's > web interface (chrome and firefox on Linux), K-9 (Android 4.4.2 and 5.1.1), > and Thunderbird on Linux. I promise to be honest about what I see. > > Dennis > > -- > -- > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/k-9-mail/2GfYluyojvs/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- -- 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.
