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Winmail.dat attachments

As of recently, Microsoft attachments are coming in as winmail.dat files when I go through the email icon to get to my mailboxes. (Using gmail, the attachments come through fine.) From what I understand, this was intentional with the last ios upgrade. Wonder if there is a chance of "fixing" this? It is inconvenient to have to go to multiple places to check different types of email accounts. It was great being able to do everything I needed through the one mail icon.

iPad 2, iOS 6.1.3

Posted on Jun 28, 2013 2:43 PM

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tgodfreyfuse

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5 points

Posted on Jul 31, 2015 11:46 AM

Thanks for your reply and clarifications David. That is helpful. I think you are right that telling Outlook users (in this case several of our clients) to change their Outlook configuration may be challenging for them as non-technical users even if they were willing to make that change.

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Nov 8, 2016 1:50 PM in response to everyusernametaken

I am using MS outlook. If I send the email as plain text vs. HTML it works and the file received on my iphone was a jpeg vs. a dat file.

sneude

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8 points

Sep 1, 2017 1:21 AM in response to lostinpok

Sorry, I don't get what I have to do there. Is this link maybe old? (It has been three years after all ...)

Thanks!

Winmail.dat attachments