Hi PPL,

I have the Windows 8 MAIL client configured to get G-Mail based on an imap configuration.

When opening gmail.com in Internet Explorer and looking at a specific email I do see 2 attachments for example with name: "Mail Attachement1.PDF" &  "Mail Attachement2.PDF" In the browser I can open the attachment as pdf files.

When opening the mail in the Windows 8 MAIL client the attachment are renamed to:
ATT000442.ext & ATT000445.ext

I can't find what is causing this, please help!!

Regards,

Arjan

Does Windows 8 Mail Client refer to Mail App from Windows Store? How about renaming .ext to .pdf for a test?

Hi, i'm experiencing exactly the same problem, did you find any solution in the mean time?

Regards

Kosta

Sorry i have not found a solution. Ofcourse the solution of Niki works but it strange that the windows 8 mail client renames the pdf files. So renaming them is not a solution but a useable work arround. The rename is not done for every mail i receive.

I'm having the same issue.....still not able to fix this......annoying

same issue....

Do a Network capture of the HTTP message flow.  E.g. use Fiddler4 in order to get its Enable Local Loopback utility

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/fiddler/archive/2011/12/10/fiddler-windows-8-apps-enable-loopback-network-isolation-exemption.aspx

Most likely you will find that a Content-type header is what is causing your symptom.  Then you could ask the administrator of the server to change that to make sure that it looks like .pdf and not what you are getting.  Note that Fiddler would allow you to create your own override to test whatever change you would like to be implemented.

This is workaround that works. However, it is not solution.