Email attachments show up as win.dat.

Ok, apple is really hitting a nerve with this. My iPhone 4 used to have attachments show up as the appropriate extensions up to about 8 months ago. All the forum and blog post say it is a problem with my mail server/source. Ie outlook, rich txt, HTML . Well I've tried everything and was not able to fix the problem. We just got two iPads. And I was playing around with them. I sent a message with attachments to both our email addresses when opened on her ipad she was able to download and view the attachments. However on mine the attachments showed up as a win.dat. I no longer believe this is an outlook issue anyone have any suggestions other then purchasing some third party software or telling me something is wrong with my outlook.

Does this help? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138053

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When I sent PDF attachments that shows up on my normal apple mail (as a preview PDF inside the email content), it is showing up as a empty icon in the ipad mail even though iPad mail does note it has an attachment with the paperclip mark.
Keep in mind my email acct is synced over imap on the iPad, iPhone, and apple mail. The pdf attachment opens in apple mail without problems.
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I hope a described the problem well. If anyone like to see the email for themselves contact me at [email protected] and i I'll forward you the email with the PDF attachment.
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I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about my ipad or my mac?
I was talking about your Mac, but you should probably check that setting everywhere. On the Mac it is in Mail Preferences > Accounts for each account. On the iPad it is in the Settings > Mail. There is also a "Load Remote Images" setting that could have an effect.
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