Problem with Thunderbird

[David Harrison]

Further to my last email: it looks like it is an Outlook issue, not a 
Thunderbird issue. Does anyone have an idea how I can openthese 
winmail.dat files? I am sure I will be unable to get everyone to drop 
Outlook on thie Windows machines and move to Thunderbird.

Dave

David Harrison wrote:
> This is my first post to the list. I am fairly new to Ubuntu- have 
> played around with it for a few months on my laptop.
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> Issue: I did a fresh install for 7.04, loaded Thunderbird 2.0 (using 
> Automatix) decided I really didn't like it, loaded Thunderbird 1.5 which 
> I was more familiar with. My issue: for some reason when MS WOrd 
> documents are sent to me as file attachments, all I get is a file 
> attachment called winmail.dat which (a) is not the file attachment that 
> was sent, and (b) I can't open anyway.
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> However if I send myself a file attacment of an Open Office document, I 
> can openit properly.
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> As I had the beta for Ubuntu 7.04 running prior to this and Thunderbird 
> 1.5 was able to handle Windows documents as file attachments properly, I 
> wonder what I have forgotten to do, or is this a bug?
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> Dave Harrison
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