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On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Jerry Adams <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've got a strange one; at least neither my boss nor I can figure it out.

I send out emails with attachments regularly (Outlook 2007) as part of our
sales force reporting. So far no complaints about not getting the
attachment.

However, if I send an email with an attachment (PDF, xlsx, docx, txt, etc.)
to my normal home email address (part of the Earthlink group), the
attachment is garbled and changed to winmail.dat. But, if I send the same
email to my Gmail address, it comes through fine.

My boss and I figured, at first, that there was something on the Earthlink
server that was the issue. It gets deeper, though. If I sign on to Gmail
and forward the copy of the email with the attachment to my Earthlink
address, it and the attachment arrive perfectly. I checked the firewall
settings and could not see anything that would apply to these attachments
period, much less to just one domain.

I've noticed a similar effect if I try to email an attachment from my home
Earthlink address to work; garbage at the receiving end. Have not yet tried
emailing to Gmail and then forwarding that to work.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery
lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad, you will leave Oxford
by the next town drain. - Rev. William Spooner
--
B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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