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Default Adobe PDF Mail Merge Creates winmail.dat Instead of PDF Attachment

If the message is reproduced correctly using Outlook or GMail the
implication is that there is nothing amiss with the sending process. I would
check Mozilla's security settings.

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"geoffschultz" wrote in message
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This has been discussed in other threads, but I haven't found an answer to
this problem. In reality I don't know which application is to blame, so
I've
also asked this same question in the Word forum. Please excuse the
cross-post.

I'm using Word 2007 to do a mail merge using Adobe Acrobat Pro V9. I have
Outlook configured as the default mail program. The generated PDF is
attached to en e-mail and gets delivered without problems. If I read the
e-mail using Outlook or Gmail (the only ones that I've tried), the
attachment
appears and can be displayed without issues. If I read the e-mail using a
program such as Mozilla Thunderbird, I don't see the attachment, but
instead
I see winmail.dat.

If I use Outlook to create an e-mail and manually attach the PDF file, the
attachment appears correctly in all of the e-mail programs that I've
tried.

What's going on here? How can I get these programs to play together so
that
I can reliably generate a PDF attachment?

-- Geoff