[ale] OT: don't see attachment sent from Outlook

[Geoffrey Myers]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com> writes:
> 
>> So, I have a client who uses outlook for email.  When he sends me an 
>> attachment, all I get is a winmail.dat attachment.  I've tried opening 
>> the same emails using thunderbird and kmail on Centos same thing.  Using 
>>   the mac email client, same thing.  If I open it in webmail, same thing.
>>
>> Weird thing is, if he sends it to his personal email which he reads with 
>> kmail, he gets the attachments.  If the then forwards that email from 
>> his personal email, I see the attachment.
>>
>> Anyone have a solution?
>>
>> (other then NOT using outlook, it's a corporate standard for them)
> 
> Ask him not to "sign" the email?

He's not.

> 
> -derek
> 


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