New twist on the ".dat" problem

[jg70124]

I work with a fellow who uses a Mac and the proprietary Apple Mail program.
I use OL XP (on XP home). We've been exchanging emails with attachments of
many different types successfully for a couple of years.

Then, about 3 weeks ago, I started recieving some of his attachments as
".dat" files. It started happening about the same time I rebuilt my drive
and reinstalled Office XP, but that may just be a coincidence. I can not
discern a pattern as to why some attachments are converted - he often sends
many attachments in the same email, and usually one or two will come through
with the correct extension, the rest will have *.dat. (This happens whether
all the attachments are of the same application type or not).

I can almost alway recover the files by simply changing the extension back.

Any ideas?

 

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