LookOut (fix version)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Firefox user 82b17d on April 27, 2024 · permalink

This add on is just sooo good! I was constantly getting winmail.dat attachments instead of pdf files. Sometimes it was urgent for me to read the pdf files but of course it was impossible because they were corrupted so I had to keep asking people to re-send them. I read up about it ages ago and found it was caused by Microsoft rich text emails but not every time particularly from the same people. I asked the senders if they could change their settings but why would they just for me & in any event some people are just scared to change their settings. Then I thought, it is not just the sender's problem, it is also the receivers problem so I searched in google to see if other people with Thunderbird had any work arounds then found this extension. I downloaded it directly into Thunderbird and absolutely immediately I could go back and I could already see all the emails that previously had winmail.dat files now had the proper pdf document plus a couple of sundry files with the junk corruption in them nicely locked away. This is just so fantastic and has now saved me having to write back to the sender to see if the next time I would be lucky enough to get an uncorrupted file and for them to have to send it again. Really good extension... an absolute must! So why does T'Bird not have it written into its software already? But thanks for it, it is great.