Mime-attachment.dat -- how to handle it?

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I have a client who has apparently been receiving emails from several
people, with attachments named "mime-attachment.dat". He's using Microsoft
Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0), and he's wondering why he can't
open and read them.

Checking the header included in one of the messages he formarded to me, it
may have come via MSN.

Amazingly, "mime-attachment.dat" hardly shows up at all in either Google or
the MS KB.

Is there some known cause or solution for this? The attachments is
readable in Notepad; here are the top few lines:
<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii">


<meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document>
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10">
<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10">
<link rel=File-List href="cid:[email protected]">
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which lead me to believe it is intended as formatting from someone using
Word as their email editor. If I rename them to .rtf or .htm, I can open
them withoug error with either Word or IE respectively, all I get is a
blank screen.

That one version of Outlook might have trouble reading another's output
isn't really surprising, but I have to wonder why it isn't more widely
discussed.

If this is simply a case of his Outlook being too old -- again, where is it
documented?

/kenw
Ken Wallewein
K&M Systems Integration
Phone (403)274-7848
Fax (403)275-4535
(e-mail address removed)
www.kmsi.net
 
How to open

save the files to a separate folder; right click on one of the mime_attachment.dat files and click "open with," then follow the menus to designate an application. Use an image viewer (paint, windows picture/fax viewer) to open the document. You could alternatively rename each file with a .jpg ending and open them.
 
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