Attachments Issue

[Jerry Adams <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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