Google GMail and winmail.dat files

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If you are using googles popular mail services GMail over IMAP and demand on winmail.dat files you will run into a problem.

GMail IMAP doesn’t return the senders original winmail.dat file, it return a home-cooked file which have only the name in common. In this case, not even Microsoft Outlook can handle the winmail.dat file.

I tried to contact google about this issue over many different ways, but didn’t get a answer.

There are two workarounds: Switch back to GMail POP3 or use GMail web interface to access mails with winmail.dat attachment.

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thanks, i had no idea gmail was the problem, thanks for the help!
ys John And
   
Says John Andrew Morse on August 28th, 2008 at 14:14

That’s so sad. Google should be open about this. Since they are generally pretty open about everything else.
   
on November 17th, 2008 at 00:35
Says Borkur on November 17th, 2008 at 00:35

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