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Why am I getting an attached PDF as Winmedia.dat in Thunderbird ?
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Thomas Schneider
Nov 20, 2012, 1:54:31 PM11/20/12
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My Lawyer does use Outlook, I'm using Thunderbird, since years.
Now, when he attempts to send me an ordinary PDF-file (abc.pdf, for
instance) as an attached file, I'm getting an
attachment named Winmedia.dat, which I cannot read at all.
Even renaming this attachment to 'abc.pdf' does not help, as Adobe
Reader does say that this file is NO PDF!
Do you have any idea what may cause this problem, and how to solve it,
so that I get a PDF in Thunderbird ?
Sincerely, and thanks in advance for any hint I can get ! :-)
Thomas Schneider.
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Now, when he attempts to send me an ordinary PDF-file (abc.pdf, for
instance) as an attached file, I'm getting an
attachment named Winmedia.dat, which I cannot read at all.
Even renaming this attachment to 'abc.pdf' does not help, as Adobe
Reader does say that this file is NO PDF!
Do you have any idea what may cause this problem, and how to solve it,
so that I get a PDF in Thunderbird ?
Sincerely, and thanks in advance for any hint I can get ! :-)
Thomas Schneider.
--
http://www.thsitc.com Austria, Europe Skype ID: Thomas.Schneider.Wien
Yahoo ID: thsi...@yahoo.com FaceBook ID: Thomas.Schneider.Wien Member
of the Rexx Languge Asscociation (www.rexxla.org) Member of the NetRexx
Developer's Team (www.netrexx.org)
WaltS
Nov 20, 2012, 2:05:32 PM11/20/12
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On 11/20/2012 01:54 PM, Thomas Schneider wrote:
> My Lawyer does use Outlook, I'm using Thunderbird, since years.
>
> Now, when he attempts to send me an ordinary PDF-file (abc.pdf, for
> instance) as an attached file, I'm getting an
> attachment named Winmedia.dat, which I cannot read at all.
>
> Even renaming this attachment to 'abc.pdf' does not help, as Adobe
> Reader does say that this file is NO PDF!
>
> Do you have any idea what may cause this problem, and how to solve it,
> so that I get a PDF in Thunderbird ?
>
> Sincerely, and thanks in advance for any hint I can get ! :-)
>
> Thomas Schneider.
>
I believe that is this bug.
> My Lawyer does use Outlook, I'm using Thunderbird, since years.
>
> Now, when he attempts to send me an ordinary PDF-file (abc.pdf, for
> instance) as an attached file, I'm getting an
> attachment named Winmedia.dat, which I cannot read at all.
>
> Even renaming this attachment to 'abc.pdf' does not help, as Adobe
> Reader does say that this file is NO PDF!
>
> Do you have any idea what may cause this problem, and how to solve it,
> so that I get a PDF in Thunderbird ?
>
> Sincerely, and thanks in advance for any hint I can get ! :-)
>
> Thomas Schneider.
>
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77811>
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Michael Petch
Nov 20, 2012, 2:20:43 PM11/20/12
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On 2012-11-20 11:54, Thomas Schneider wrote:
> My Lawyer does use Outlook, I'm using Thunderbird, since years.
>
> Now, when he attempts to send me an ordinary PDF-file (abc.pdf, for
> instance) as an attached file, I'm getting an
> attachment named Winmedia.dat, which I cannot read at all.
>
> Even renaming this attachment to 'abc.pdf' does not help, as Adobe
> Reader does say that this file is NO PDF!
>
> Do you have any idea what may cause this problem, and how to solve it,
> so that I get a PDF in Thunderbird ?
>
I assume you meant winmail.dat? This file isn't understood by many mail
> My Lawyer does use Outlook, I'm using Thunderbird, since years.
>
> Now, when he attempts to send me an ordinary PDF-file (abc.pdf, for
> instance) as an attached file, I'm getting an
> attachment named Winmedia.dat, which I cannot read at all.
>
> Even renaming this attachment to 'abc.pdf' does not help, as Adobe
> Reader does say that this file is NO PDF!
>
> Do you have any idea what may cause this problem, and how to solve it,
> so that I get a PDF in Thunderbird ?
>
programs other than outlook and they generally aren't usable (renaming
back to PDF etc) without some form of processing. There is a Thunderbird
plugin called LookOut that may work by processing the Winmail.dat file
and other Microsoft mail attachment formats.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/lookout/
Peter Holsberg
Nov 20, 2012, 3:34:06 PM11/20/12
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WaltS has written on 11/20/2012 2:05 PM:
http://www.winmaildat.com/
> On 11/20/2012 01:54 PM, Thomas Schneider wrote:
>> My Lawyer does use Outlook, I'm using Thunderbird, since years.
>>
>> Now, when he attempts to send me an ordinary PDF-file (abc.pdf, for
>> instance) as an attached file, I'm getting an
>> attachment named Winmedia.dat, which I cannot read at all.
>>
>> Even renaming this attachment to 'abc.pdf' does not help, as Adobe
>> Reader does say that this file is NO PDF!
>>
>> Do you have any idea what may cause this problem, and how to solve it,
>> so that I get a PDF in Thunderbird ?
>>
>> Sincerely, and thanks in advance for any hint I can get ! :-)
>>
>> Thomas Schneider.
>>
>
> I believe that is this bug.
>
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77811>
>
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/technology/personaltech/25askk.html?_r=0>
>> My Lawyer does use Outlook, I'm using Thunderbird, since years.
>>
>> Now, when he attempts to send me an ordinary PDF-file (abc.pdf, for
>> instance) as an attached file, I'm getting an
>> attachment named Winmedia.dat, which I cannot read at all.
>>
>> Even renaming this attachment to 'abc.pdf' does not help, as Adobe
>> Reader does say that this file is NO PDF!
>>
>> Do you have any idea what may cause this problem, and how to solve it,
>> so that I get a PDF in Thunderbird ?
>>
>> Sincerely, and thanks in advance for any hint I can get ! :-)
>>
>> Thomas Schneider.
>>
>
> I believe that is this bug.
>
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77811>
>
http://www.winmaildat.com/
David E. Ross
Nov 20, 2012, 6:53:39 PM11/20/12
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On 11/20/12 11:05 AM, WaltS wrote:
> On 11/20/2012 01:54 PM, Thomas Schneider wrote:
>> My Lawyer does use Outlook, I'm using Thunderbird, since years.
>>
>> Now, when he attempts to send me an ordinary PDF-file (abc.pdf, for
>> instance) as an attached file, I'm getting an
>> attachment named Winmedia.dat, which I cannot read at all.
>>
>> Even renaming this attachment to 'abc.pdf' does not help, as Adobe
>> Reader does say that this file is NO PDF!
>>
>> Do you have any idea what may cause this problem, and how to solve it,
>> so that I get a PDF in Thunderbird ?
>>
>> Sincerely, and thanks in advance for any hint I can get ! :-)
>>
>> Thomas Schneider.
>>
>
> I believe that is this bug.
>
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77811>
>
After reviewing bug #77811, I am even more convinced that E-mail should
> On 11/20/2012 01:54 PM, Thomas Schneider wrote:
>> My Lawyer does use Outlook, I'm using Thunderbird, since years.
>>
>> Now, when he attempts to send me an ordinary PDF-file (abc.pdf, for
>> instance) as an attached file, I'm getting an
>> attachment named Winmedia.dat, which I cannot read at all.
>>
>> Even renaming this attachment to 'abc.pdf' does not help, as Adobe
>> Reader does say that this file is NO PDF!
>>
>> Do you have any idea what may cause this problem, and how to solve it,
>> so that I get a PDF in Thunderbird ?
>>
>> Sincerely, and thanks in advance for any hint I can get ! :-)
>>
>> Thomas Schneider.
>>
>
> I believe that is this bug.
>
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77811>
>
be plain text, neither HTML-formatted nor rich-text-formatted.
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