I'm not exactly sure what an exchange server is but I thought it had something to do with a corporation's IT department. I am a home user so I have no special servers or anything in my home. Just my computer connected to the cable modem.
The file shows up fine in this forum when I sent it, but it is on my phone through K9 that it is showing up as winmail.dat file. The file shows up fine out on the web in Mediacom's webmail when using my phone and my computer. The file comes back to me and views fine on my computer when I receive it back into the computer. The only place the .doc files show up as a winmail.dat is on my phone when using K9. I can email it to you to open on your phone using K9 to let you see it there. If you can open it on your phone using K9 then it must be a setting on my phone or my K9 that needs changed. If so, just tell me what to change and I'll do it! Thank you, Cindy On Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 7:01:38 AM UTC-5, Richard wrote: > The issue here is that there are many moving parts, in various > locations, involved. There is K9, but there is also the sender's > mail client/sending environment as well as the recipient mail server > and receiving environment. Any one of these could have changed (only > some parts are under the control of the end-user). > > This thread started on 5/5. Looking back through I don't see the > version of K9 that this issue is showing up in. Knowing the Android > release is helpful too. > > Both Seth and Cindy have sent .doc file attachments to the list > (Cindy's indicated that it was what was showing as a winmail.dat > file in your environment). For me at least, they both showed as .doc > attachments and opened fine (k9 5.103 and 5.106). > > Historically, winmail.dat files are the result of the MS environment > (even MS will tell you that), so that's why we suspect that it's > something on that side of the equation, not K9. In addition to the > way the user is sending mail there is the user's back-end mail, > which in Cindy's case I suspect is an "Exchange" server. It's > possible that MS released an update that changed how things are > handled there. It's hard to tell, without some careful testing. > > > > ------------ Original Message ------------ > > Date: Saturday, June 06, 2015 03:59:54 AM -0700 > > From: Richard Vanni <[email protected] <javascript:>> > > > > Good to be taken seriously. Not! > > > > Op vrijdag 5 juni 2015 12:26:38 UTC+2 schreef voytek: > >> > >> I find it hard to believe (in fact, I don't). > >> > >> Please email to my email address such an email, thanks > >> > >> Voytek > >> > >> On 5 June 2015 5:19:11 am AEST, Cindy <[email protected] > >> <javascript:>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Thanks for validating my issue Richard. I was beginning to > >>> think I was crazy saying it USED to work just fine. Cindy > >>> > >>> > >>> On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 5:18:54 AM UTC-5, Richard Vanni > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> What many here don't understand is that this problem of > >>>> winmail.dat in K9 occurs only since the last few weeks. > >>>> > >>>> I'm figuring out myself what's going wrong. What many here > >>>> don't understand is that this problem of winmail.dat in K9 > >>>> occurs since the last few weeks. Text, Excel, Word and other > >>>> attachements are received as Winmail.dat files in K9. > >>>> I'm using K9 for three years now and *I have never had any > >>>> problems with attachements. Until now*. Seems that K9 has > >>>> changed something during the last month. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Op vrijdag 22 mei 2015 13:15:25 UTC+2 schreef Seth Holmes: > >>>>> > >>>>> On May 21, 2015 11:36:10 PM EDT, Cindy <[email protected]> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Did some more testing...sending via Outlook on my desktop, > >>>>>> from my gmail account to my gmail account, the document > >>>>>> stays as a .doc file on my phone in k9 > >>>>>> > >>>>>> sending via Outlook on my desktop, from my mchsi account to > >>>>>> my mchsi account, the document comes through as a > >>>>>> winmail.dat file on my phone in k9 > >>>>>> > >>>>>> However this same file (mchsi to mchsi using Outlook on my > >>>>>> desktop), using IE on my phone and going to Mediacom's web > >>>>>> mail interface out on the web, the document stays as a .doc > >>>>>> file > >>>>>> > >>>>>> So why does k9 keep the .doc file intact for a gmail account > >>>>>> (coming from Outlook) but not for an mchsi account (coming > >>>>>> from Outlook) ? Keep in mind, viewing on my phone from IE > >>>>>> webmail interface from Mediacom also keeps the email > >>>>>> attachment as a .doc. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> So Mediacom is not changing anything to a winmail.dat as I > >>>>>> can still view it on my phone via the webmail interf! ace on > >>>>>> IE. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> The common factor is that it happens only in k9 on a mchsi > >>>>>> account. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Does that help anyone figure out what the cause could be? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Cindy > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 10:07:21 PM UTC-5, Cindy wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> 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-b966-4 > >>>>>>>> 8f8-9498-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/ > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>> I suspect it's the mchsi mail server converting to the > >>>>> Microsoft proprietary format. It sees your sender and send to > >>>>> accounts as being mchsi and this uses a format it assumes > >>>>> works in both places. > >>>>> > >>>>> If I were you, I'd contact them to see what they may be doing. > >>>>> > >>>>> FWIW, when you sent you're doc, it arrived to my phone using > >>>>> k9 as a .doc file. > >>>>> -- > >>>>> Seth H Holmes > >>>>> Droid RAZR M with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > >>>>> > >>>> > >> -- > >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. 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