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PDF Files on e-mail 6 Months, 3 Weeks ago  
New to Mac
When I get a PDF file sent to me via e-mail from someone it comes through as a winmail.dat file.
Wen I try and open this attachement the printer icon briefly appears on the line where the icons appear then disappears again.
I cant seem to open these files
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Dave
 
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Re:PDF Files on e-mail 6 Months, 3 Weeks ago  
What Email application are you using? The default Apple Mail?
 
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Re:PDF Files on e-mail 6 Months, 3 Weeks ago  
Have had same problem. Usually caused by the sender using MS Outlook (which should be renamed LOOKOUT! IMHO

Get the sender to resend the email as plain text - or get them to zip up the attachement and send it as a zip file

Either should work

GM
 
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Re:PDF Files on e-mail 6 Months, 3 Weeks ago  
Or save Winmail.dat and rename it to whatever.pdf and it will open.
 
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Re:PDF Files on e-mail 6 Months, 3 Weeks ago  
Excellent Lowdedwookie, thanks it works.
 
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Re:PDF Files on e-mail 6 Months, 3 Weeks ago  
Darryn, great tip. Had never tried that one.

A couple of other options are:
www.joshjacob.com/macdev/tnef/
TNEF's Enough allows Macs to read and extract files from Microsoft TNEF stream files.

and
www.restoroot.org/OMiC/en/
OMiC - Process Microsoft Outlook winmail.dat files in Apple Mail.
 
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Re:PDF Files on e-mail 6 Months, 3 Weeks ago  
Not an outlook winmail.dat issue however recently experiencing that PDF Boarding Passes from Air New Zealand do not seem to be accessible from Apple Mail (10.5.2) yet their PDF Itinerary is fine.
Anybody else having this issue?
 
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