Friends who just migrated to vista, and recieved an outlook message in .emal
format. They fiddled for hours trying to open something that was supported
natively on their XP system.
I helped them workaround by changing the file from .email to .eml extension,
then windows mail could open it fine (and get the attachments wihtin, etc)-
but this is a pretty poor workaround - how do I set up windows mail so that
it can read .email when it comes in like it used to?
Thanks in advance...

You need to create a file type for .email files and associate this type with
Windows Mail. Save the .email attachment to your desktop, Shift-right click
it and choose 'open with'. Choose WinMail and check the box for always use
this program. This adds the .email file type and associates it with Windows
Mail.

Hal
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"thomg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Friends who just migrated to vista, and recieved an outlook message in
..emal
> format. They fiddled for hours trying to open something that was supported
> natively on their XP system.
> I helped them workaround by changing the file from .email to .eml
extension,
> then windows mail could open it fine (and get the attachments wihtin,
etc)-
> but this is a pretty poor workaround - how do I set up windows mail so
that
> it can read .email when it comes in like it used to?
> Thanks in advance...