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Sep 1, 2015 9:09 AM in response to iJornby alex_h1,Hello iJorn,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
I see from your post that you're seeing a windmill.dat file attachment on your iPhone from certain email addresses. Check out the information below on why this happens, and how to avoid seeing those attachments.
You can ignore winmail.dat attachments, which are related to the email app that the sender is using.
If you receive an email message sent from a Microsoft email app such as Outlook or Microsoft Exchange, the message might include an attachment with "winmail.dat" in the name. The attachment doesn't appear in the Microsoft email app, but it does appear in Mail, and in other apps it may appear as a MIME section named "application/ms-tnef."
This occurs when the sender composed a message that includes additional information about text attributes such as font, color, boldfacing, or underlining. To avoid seeing these attachments in the future, ask the sender to turn off the option in their email app to send the message in Microsoft rich text format. More information is available in Microsoft's description of the Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF).
If you get an email message with a winmail.dat attachment on your Mac - Apple Support
Take care.
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Sep 1, 2015 10:06 AM in response to alex_h1by iJorn,Thanks, I did found that and other useful information when searching Internet. The strange thing is that my spouse who getting mail from the same person is seeing the files attached, one pdf and one .doc, while getting the winmail.dat file. Where both using updated iphone 5s and we're both using Google apps accounts with apples build email client.
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Sep 3, 2015 6:06 AM in response to iJornby alex_h1,Hi iJorn,
Thank you for using the Apple Support Community. Due to the nature of your issue or question you may find more information by using another one of Apple's support resources - https://getsupport.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action
Take care.
