Open any type of attachment in mail from a POP account

When I receive any type of attachment in email (pop account) the attachment shows up as a "winmail.dat" Why is it not showing up as PDF, xls or doc etc...?
Iphone 1.1.3 16g
I would like to be able to open any type of attachments that come into my email.
Thanks

This is a Microslop proprietary problem/bug when the sender of a message uses Outlook as their email client and uses RTF for message composition, and especially when sent thru an Exchange Server.
http://www.pchell.com/support/winmaildat.shtml
Funny that Microslop names this document - "How to prevent the Winmail.dat file from being sent to Internet Users" as if those not using Outlook as their email client and not thru an exchange server are from another planet or something. This is MS proprietary garbage they have known about for a very long time but refuse to do anything about.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q138053/
Long story short, as your Outlook using friends to compose all messages sent to you in Plain Text (preferably) or HTML. Not RTF.

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Hello and thanks to both of you,
I am using Mail 3.1 and the Account is coming from Strato, a German provider. Before, I had no problems neither with receiving nor with sending, but suddenly it stoped. I tried another account (gmail) that worked without any problem. Also your advice with SSl and the ports did not help . I Also phoned the Helpline of the provider Strato without any result . Also the place does not change - it neither works at home nor at work.
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Thank you, Baforer. Between your solution and another person having the same problem, I was able to solve mine, an error message saying "Sender address is invalid" when I know my email address WAS correct.
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Hi Folks,
My Mail app is configured to download POP mail from my Gmail, Yahoo, and personal domain accounts, so that I can read it all in one place, and have a copy of messages on my computer.
I tried .Mac for a while last year, but because these are all POP accounts, the synchronization essentially meant that the same messages were downloaded to each Mac I used. At least, that's how it worked for me.
I now have to reconfigure one of my Macs, a PowerBook, due to a hard drive crash. And I'm thinking: If I want to use Mail on my Powerbook and my MacBook, would I essentially accomplish the same thing as .Mac synchronization by making sure each copy of Mail is configured to leave my messages (Gmail, Yahoo, personal) on the server? Wouldn't I then just have the same messages downloaded to each machine whenever I logged into Mail?
Just trying to wrap my head around the most efficient way to set this up. This approach wouldn't exactly be efficient, but it seems to me the most thorough without having IMAP available, and would allow me to read and respond to messages regardless of the computer I'm using at any given time. Does this make sense? Thanks for any insight.
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would I essentially accomplish the same thing as .Mac synchronization by making sure each copy of Mail is configured to leave my messages (Gmail, Yahoo, personal) on the server? Wouldn't I then just have the same messages downloaded to each machine whenever I logged into Mail?
Yes: this is exactly how I do it, except that I set Mail on each machine to delete messages from the server after a week. You do this each account, in the 'Advanced' tab, and you have the choice of after 1 day, 1 week, 1 month or when messages are removed from the inbox. This prevent you clogging up the server, and as long as you use each machine within the specified period you will get all your messages downloaded to each one. Of course on one machine you won't know if a message has been read or answered on another, nor will you have a record of sent messages on other machines unless you Bcc the answers to yourself.
I have it set up to Bcc automatically (using QuicKeys but you could do it manually of course) so that each machine sends to an email address specific to that machine, from which it is forwarded to the main account: then using a rule that if a message comes from the machine it was sent on it's deleted, otherwise it's moved to the 'Sent' folder.

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Popped 3 messages from my account to iphone (3.0). Deleted them on iphone. Then popped from my computer from the same account, and should have seen the mail on the computer. Advanced mail settings on the phone have all mailboxes set to iphone local, and push was on. Nothing should ever be removed from the server.

I have Deleted Messages under Advanced set to Never, but do not have anything available to change about Server settings under Incoming settings - just SSL, Authentication, IMAP Path Prefix, and Server Port.
As already provided, this is an IMAP account.
All server stored mailboxes with an IMAP account are kept synchronized with the server automatically with each email client used to access the account. You can select to store the account's Drafts, Trash, and Sent mailboxes on the server or locally, but the account's Inbox mailbox is stored on the server and cannot be changed.
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In the past couple of days I have been unable to recieve any incoming mail, but I'm able to send emails out! There is nothing wrong with my actual server, so I'm not sure what is wrong with my mac.

I'm thinking this is an authentication or port issue. Is this how you set it up?
http://www.startlogic.com/support/tutorials/view_tutorial.bml?kbid=7958
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IMAP-SSL is port 993
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You need to check the settings on your iPhone to see if you have it set to delete the messages from the server after you pick them up from the phone. One of the things about POP3 mail is it is designed for access from one mail program. In other words, if you access from one device. If you set the iPhone to leave the mail on the server, it will be available for you to check from your home computer/laptop.
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I'm posting this issue again.
Mail hangs while getting new mail from multiple POP accounts almost every time. When it does, only Force Quit can quit it.
The following DID NOT fix the hang:
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You’re welcome.
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It doesn’t crash (i.e. quit unexpectedly). It freezes (i.e. becomes unresponsive), right?
I transfered my data to a Mac Mini. I had the same exact problem on it too!
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