ubuntu evolulution Email attachments are arriving as .dat files

ubuntu evolulution Email attachments are arriving as .dat files I am using evolution as my mail client on Ubuntu and sometimes the atachemets sent from a windows machine arive as .dat file. Do you know a fix for this ?
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"What is the exact file name? If it is winmail.dat: That is a well-known problem with mails from Microsoft Exchange. Exchange uses a special encoding to transport some Exchange-specific information.

See e.g. this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipediadotorg/wiki/TNEF

There's software to decode these attachments; it's listed in the article."