PDF attachments are changed when emailed

I have a user that whenever she creates or prints a PDF (Adobe 8 Professional) and then tries to email it within Adobe (going to file -> attach to an email), it converts to either a winmail.dat, .eml or a .mht file when the person receives it. It only does this when she sends to someone not using outlook. If she attaches the pdf outside of Adobe, then it works. Rich-text is turned off in Outlook and Adobe is patched and up to date. Any suggestions???? This is driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!

Have you tried changing the message format in Outlook to HTML?

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import javax.activation.DataHandler;
import javax.activation.FileDataSource;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
public class test {
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            System.out.println("Invalid number of arguments. Syntax is 'java test <fileName> <fromEmail> <toEmail>'");
        } else {
            System.out.println("Correct number of arguments.");
            send(args[0], args[1], args[2]);
    public static void send(String fileName, String fromEmail, String toEmail) {
        System.out.println("Made it to SEND method");
        try {
            Properties props = new Properties();
            props.put("mail.smtp.host", "email.host");
            Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
            MimeMessage msg = new MimeMessage(session);
            //set from/to email addresses
            System.out.println("Setting email addresses...");
            msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(fromEmail));
            msg.setRecipients(javax.mail.Message.RecipientType.TO, toEmail);
            //set email subject
            System.out.println("Setting subject...");
            msg.setSubject("email from TEST class");
            //define a body part for the email text and add text to it
            System.out.println("Setting body...");
            MimeBodyPart messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
            messageBodyPart.setContent("This is the email body. Here is some more body.", "text/html");
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            MimeBodyPart attachFilePart = new MimeBodyPart();
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                    new FileDataSource(fileName);
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Normally pdf files are text, with any binary data represented as encoded text. If your pdf files
include raw binary data, JavaMail can be confused. JavaMail will try to guess what encoding
is appropriate for your data. If the data is mostly text, JavaMail will use quoted-printable encoding,
and will canonicalize the text lines to end with CRLF (0x0D, 0x0A). A 0x0D in the binary will look
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We are using outlook 2013 as pop account for our official email communication.One of the laptop is having windows 7 professional operating systems and the email we are using as outlook 2013 in that laptop.
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