It's something to do with how the client's Exchange server is set up. Not all Exchange servers do this, but it's annoying. Forgot the name of it, but there's a little shareware app that converts the winmail.dat attachment for Mac users. On Feb 5, 2007, at 5:32 PM, Greg Caulton wrote: > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > Hi All! > > Has anyone had success converting "winmail" attachments to pdfs? > > A client (on a PC) has emailed me what he believes are pdfs but > have arrived on my Mac as <winmail.dat> files. Simply changing the > extension to .pdf doesn't work -- Acrobat thinks they are corrupt. > > Opening the files with a text editor and printing them as pdfs > attempts to create pdfs that are over 100 pages long, and I know > they aren't that long. > > Any thoughts? > > Greg > __________________ > Greg Caulton > 233 West Pelham Road > Shutesbury, MA 01072 > > Ph: 413-259-1505 > Cell: 413-695-3361 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech > Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20070206/3cea2742/attachment-0005.html