| Morgan Jones on 16 Jan 2018 15:22:06 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Weird handling of incoming attachments in dovecot--winmail.dat file |
I see them too periodically: I don’t believe it has anything to do with the receiving environment though most of my mail goes through one of two Zimbra environments and I read my mail with mail.app on a Mac. I seem to remember being about to fiddle with them and read them pretty easily but a few quick attempts with one I received recently is coming up blank. This may be helpful: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278061/email-received-from-a-sender-using-outlook-includes-a-winmail-dat-atta -morgan > On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:53 PM, Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com> wrote: > > My users get emails generated by Outlook from a government agency. Our mailserver is dovecot running on CentOS 7. When these emails have attachments, something strange happens: > > -some users see the attachments correctly (Excel spreadsheets being the most common) > -other users get a winmail.dat file. > > All users are using Thunderbird as a mail client. The issue does not seem to be confined to the mail client--if the users go into webmail (Horde), the ones that get the winmail.dat still see information jumbled together (i.e. not handled as expected), while those who get the attachments properly in T-Bird also see it properly in webmail. > > I want to make it clear that, although what I read implies this is strictly the result of Outlook, the same email sent from the agency to two users at our company is displayed in two different ways. > > Basically, our server seems to be doing something weird with incoming attachments, on a per-user basis. Anyone ever had this? What would I look at to try to fix it? > > Thanks, > -- > Greg Helledy > GRA, Incorporated > P: +1 215-884-7500 > F: +1 215-884-1385 > www.gra.aero > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug