here is a word document that is showing up as a winmail.dat when viewing in k9
Cindy On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 2:34:49 PM UTC-5, Seth Holmes wrote: > On 5/15/15 6:22 PM, Cindy wrote: > > Hi Seth, > > > > the info you gave about winmail.dat has to do with the email being a > rich text > > formatted message. > > > > That is not what I am talking about. I am using html formatted message > and > > attaching a word document (.doc) to the html formatted email. > > > > So the winmail.dat file your link is referring to has nothing to do with > the > > word document attachment that should be there. It stays a word document > when > > viewing the email out on Mediacom's web mail interface. It stays a word > > document attachment when coming into my computer. However, on my phone > using > > k9 the word document file is no longer there and in it's place is a > > winmail.dat file. K9 used to be able to view a word document file > several > > months ago. > > Try reading this article: > > > http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-word/word-doc-attachmentsbecome-winmaildat/5366cdd7-b966-48f8-9498-e85329dacab5 > > > It's a little old but also seems to cover word documents showing up as > winmail.dat files. > > The bottom line is that until you change the way you are sending your > e-mail, > it's going to be a problem. Part of the problem may be that by e-mailing > yourself, Outlook is assuming you'll be able to read the proprietary > format > and does not take into account reading it on third party applications. > > I know you really want this to be something K-9 can do, but it can't. It's > not > an issue with receiving word documents. It's an issue with sending them. > > I'm going to attach a word document generated in Google Docs. Let's see > what > happens. > > > -- > Seth H Holmes > http://www.route-fu.net/ > -- -- 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.
This is a temp word document to test how it shows up on my phone with k9.doc
Description: MS-Word document
