9300i email attachments are .dat files

When I download emails to my 9300i from from my POP3 server (BT), the word and excel attachments come through as .dat files. can anyone help?

Joel,
In addition to Allan's very appropriate question, see those I asked of Charles in the topic at:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3386412#3386412
Ernie

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PC users receive my email attachments as .dat files...

....and CANNOT open them.
I've done a cursory search on this board to find a fix for this problem, but cannot.
Any assistance I might receive in fixing this issue would be great.
Cheers,
Joel DuBay
www.readyacoustics.com

Joel,
In addition to Allan's very appropriate question, see those I asked of Charles in the topic at:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3386412#3386412
Ernie

Some users are experiencing difficulty opening certain docx files sent as email attachments. These files contain content controls to protect data in the document. Could someone please confirm that the content controls are the reason the files won't open.

Some users are experiencing difficulty opening certain docx files sent as email attachments. These files contain content controls to protect data in the document. Could someone please confirm that the content controls are the reason the files won't open.
These files open correctly when sent as doc files.
Thanks

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my N95-8Gb sometimes receive unrecocognisable email attachments (WINMAIL.DAT). I can read maybe 1st line of the email msg but unable to view anymore than this. From what I can gather is that msgs seem to be in a format that my n95-8Gb cannot decipher and it just renames the file.
As I read I generally read all my emails in the html, this is very frustrating....
Anybody got any ideas, help
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Does anybody else see where email attachments are now always auto-download on all devices. The policy option was phased out in 5.0 but the default at that time was no (to auto-download). Now they all auto-download.
1. PDF will not display because they must stay as attachment to render on Blackberry device. Says
“This attachment type cannot be viewed on your device”
2. Phone messages attached as voicemail.wav - first one works, but since no longer the "Preview" option second says "Fielname exists - Rename?" Some devcies you can save and go back - others you can't.

Surely there's an expert on this forum who can help?

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I would like to be able to batch save hundreds of email attachments in my inbox to a specified folder and use the date and time email was received as the name of the file. i found sample script that would give it timestamp but would prefer date and time of receipt. any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks.

I found the below script online but it does not seem to be naming correctly. it appears that the month always defaults to 12. perhaps somehow could suggest a fix?
set theAttachmentPath to (path to desktop) as text
tell application "Mail"
          set a to selection
end tell
repeat with s in a
          tell application "Mail"
                    set current_date to date received of s
                    set CurrentSender to sender of s
          end tell
          set current_date to AppleScriptDateToString(current_date)
          tell application "Mail" to set Attached to mail attachments of s
          repeat with ThisAttach in Attached
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                              set FileName to current_date & " from " & CurrentSender & ".pdf" as text
                              set FileName to checknamewith_pdfsuffix(FileName, theAttachmentPath, false)
                              tell application "Mail" to save ThisAttach in theAttachmentPath & (FileName)
                    end if
          end repeat
end repeat
on AppleScriptDateToString(a)
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          set monthnames to {}
          repeat with i from 1 to 12
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                    set monthnames to monthnames & {(month of b) as text}
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          set Y to (year of b)
          set M to 0
          repeat with t in monthnames
                    set M to M + 1
                    if t as text = (month of b) as text then
                              exit repeat
                    end if
          end repeat
          set M to Twodigits(M)
          set D to Twodigits(day of b)
          set hh to Twodigits(hours of b)
          set mm to (minutes of b)
          set ss to Twodigits(seconds of b)
          return Y & "-" & M & "-" & D as text
end AppleScriptDateToString
on Twodigits(a)
          return (characters -2 through -1 of (("0" & a) as text)) as text
end Twodigits
on checknamewith_pdfsuffix(n, D, looped)
          tell application "Finder"
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          end tell
          if thefiles contains n then
                    if looped = false then
                              set n to ((characters 1 through -5 of n) & " 1" & (characters -4 through -1 of n)) as text
checknamewith_pdfsuffix(n, D, true)
                    else
                              set tmp to (last word of ((characters 1 through -5 of n) as text) as integer)
                              set tmpcount to (count of characters of (tmp as text)) + 5
                              set tmp to tmp + 1
                              set n to ((characters 1 through (-1 * tmpcount) of n) & tmp & (characters -4 through -1 of n)) as text
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                    end if
          else
                    return n
          end if
end checknamewith_pdfsuffix

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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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when I send email or receive email with attachments such as pdf or .docx, the files are unreadable on my iphone and become dat files.

I have the same problem. I found that by saving the file to FILENAME.pdf and reopening with Preview or Adobe it works. I saw another post that suggested that long filenames that are forwarded to others are renamed with a .dat extension. I never had this problem until I upgraded to the latest MAC OS. Could that be the problem?

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I have a G4 ibook I rarely use and a G5 that I use daily both have recently begun to automatically download and convert all email attachments to .html, which when opened are gibberish.
What can I do to fix this?
When and if I can get Explorer to open I dont have this problem.

comments?
Firefox and IE simply ignore the MIME part (it's probably more complicated than that - I'd guess they have a list of 'known' file extension types they trust over what the webserver claims for them, and then fall back to the MIME type specified for more esoteric ones).
Safari changed sometime around 1.2 -> 1.3 to use the MIME types more. Why? I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure that's the cause.
If you have a URL to one of your attachments in the webmail site, try typing this in the Terminal:
curl -I [your URL]
In the output, the MIME type is indicated by the 'Content-Type: xxxxxx/yyyyyy' entry.

Aperture Email Attachments are Embedded in the Email Sent to Windows PC's

I've searched the forum and have run across this problem discussed previously. When sharing photos from Aperture 3.4.3 using the Email preset, the jpg's show up embedded in the body of the email when sent to people using PC's and running Outlook. Oftentimes, the jpgs actually appear as thumbnails as well, and not full size. I've tried the suggestions found here in this forum without any success. In Mail, I have "windows friendly attachments" checked, although that particular menu item is greyed out, and can't either be selected or de-selected. I've also formatted the email as "Plain Text". Still photos attached don't show up on the Windows PC's as attachments. I even exported a photo from Aperture to my desktop, then attached that jpg to an email, and got the same results. I'm not sure if this is an Aperture problem, or a Mail problem. I'm using Aperture 3.4.3 and OS 10.7 . Am I missing something? Thanks in advance.

Hi,
I have experimented extensively with this issue. It is related to the recipitants email app, but in previous versions of Mail could be made successful by clicking on Format/Make Plain Text prior to sending. In Mail in Lion and ML, this change does not stick, and the message utlimately gets sent in Rich Text/HTML which is why the MS apps have problems.
The Make Plain Text strangely enough endures if you add a Signature following the attachments that is EMPTY but composed as text only plain text. This 'tricks" Mail and OSX to not change it back. I cooresponded with Apple engineering about this, and they say the use of Rich Text is necessary and helpful with Exchange Accounts. But this does not help the many who are not in Exchange Account Situations.
See:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17550705#17550705
The use of Attachment Tamer in general can help this, but I don't use it, and it is not clear to me how it would work when invoking Mail sending from within Aperture (or iPhoto which suffers the same issue).
MS could probably solve the problem, but at last check even RTF produced in Outlook could be problematic to those using Outlook Express, or vice-versa.
Ernie

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Hi guys
I have developed an application using Oracle 8i and forms 6i. There is a report developed in 6i repors and saved as PDF format. this file I have to send as attachemnts to the employees.
Is there any way to send PDF file as attachemnts using forms 6i.
REgards
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The easiest way (and OS independent, so you don't need Outlook or blat or something like that) is to send the email and attachment from the database. Package utl_smtp won't let you do that, but with Java mail you can. So, after you generated your report, you can mail it using Java mail.
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I have set up some subscritions for reports within SCCM. The problem I have is when they are emailed to me the filetype is wrong on the attached report.
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Hi,
There are too many things affecting the attachments. You could try to use OWA test if the format of attachments will be changed.
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If they're really PDF files have whoever's sending them zip them first. BTW, what's with the Word and Excel files in the title? You didn't say anything about those.

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