Opening .msg attachments

I have recently started receiving attachements in .msg format and I cannot open them. When I try, the attachment is diverted to an attachment in a new email, perhaps because I formerly tried to open it by selecting email as an application that might open it.
How do I open these attachments?
Thanks.

You need to be running Windows to open them.

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I upgraded recently Leopard 10.5.1. Previously I was working 10.4.10 so I do not have experience with Mail from 10.5.0.
In Leopard Mail 3.1 (914/915) I am receiving some mails with files xyz.msg and abc.msg (example names) attached. Those files do not show up with the paper clip attachment symbol in the Message Viewer window but they do show up as attachments within the message themselves and under the messages 'attachment triangle'.
In 10.4.x these sorts of files used to be imbedded within the mail message itself - seemingly like HTML embedded content. I could read the content and print it from within Mail and it acted like a specially formatted part of the mail message. In 10.5.1 however, these attachments are not rendered in the message, clicking to open them or saving them to the Finder is fine but I do not know with which application they can be read. I tried Text Edit and Safari - both can open the .msg files but only as HTML source.
Has anyone out there seen this behavior and have an idea for how to view these attachments, or better still, view them in the original message as per the old behavior?
Although in 10.4 I had "Display remote images in HTML messages" turned off for security, I also tried that here without effect.
Thanks to all.

I've had the same issue in 10.5.1 (not sure about 10.5.0). I've narrowed it down a bit however. I noticed that I always get the .msg (which can't really be read) when the sender uses Squirrelmail (webmail) to forward as attachment. When the sender uses Outlook and forwards as attachment, I get an email with no attachment. The size of the email indicates that there should be, but none is visible. However, when the sender uses Mail 3.1, the attachment works as expected (an envelope is shown that can be opened by a click).
Perhaps different mail clients use different methods when forwarding an email as an attachment? I'm sure this is a bug in Mail, but it certainly is frustrating!
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Does anyone have any experience with this company/product?
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I really need to be able to open .msg files on my employer's network so I can go through old e-mails as required.
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Hi all,
First time posting so please excuse any misused terminology and the like. I'm having trouble with Mac Mail. I use iCloud mail for my service and I have my iCloud account connected to "Mail" on my iMac. I also have a Hotmail account connected to Mail that I occasionally use.
I recently tried to send a PDF to a Windows user using my iCloud account but they were unable to open the attachment. They could view the message fine and the attachment showed up but they were getting an error when they tried to open it. They also tried to save the attachment to their computer and then open it with no luck. When I took a look at the sent e-mail I was also unable to open the PDF. I was getting an error that read:
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