Suddenly, my Word docs are showing up on IPAD email as winmail.dat files

I've been sending myself word docs from Windows Outlook desktop email so I can work on documents on my IPAD while away from home. Worked fine until yesterday, and now my word2003 attached docs on Ipad email are showing up as unopenable winmail.dat files. I've done nothing different, so am not sure what is happening. Other people's emails with Word docx files are opening fine as are pdfs

Sorry, I can't help with why it is happening but there is an app available to read them.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/winmail-file-viewer/id379500151?mt=8#&partnerId=3 0&siteID=X3Th4gZiiQ-4P6Ir4jNicgEJftJadY3g

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