Attachments to Winmail Won't Open

PDF docs attached to incoming Winmail messages will not open when clicked.  The error box comes up claiming there is no program associated with this type of file and to go create an association. I have done that numerous times, have reloaded Adobe reader 10.1.4 or whatever the latest one is (1/28/13) and the same result.    Refuses to open.   Help on the issue within Adobe is a circular run-around. Chat is not allowed for whatever reason.  
At the same time I can save the attachment, anywhere, and then go click on it and it opens immediatley with no problem.
This disease has been that way from day one.  I am using Vista in a 64 bit machine. Winmail and Adobe reader both work just fine EXCEPT for this issue.
What is wrong ? How do I fix it ?

Hello
Once again I got the same behaviour.
An user attached an AW6 document to a mail.
I put it on the desktop and it was Read Only.
This is not an AW6 feature, it's a Mail one (perhaps it is the same with other similar applications like Thunderbird).
It's a pity but, as far as I know, we can't get our correspondants to be fair enough to don't attach documents this way. After all posting this bad way leave the extra task to the receiver, not to the sender !
Some of these days, I will decide to reject such attachments, asking the sender to pack the files in some kind of archive.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 26 janvier 2006 10:34:26)

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