Q. I sometimes receive e-mail messages with a “winmail.dat” file attached that I cannot open. Why does this happen, and what can I do to fix it? A. The winmail.dat file usually appears because various ...

April 25, 2007 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If you've ever received a forward from an Outlook user in Mail.app containing an attached winmail.dat file, you ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Q: Most of my e-mails from work come with winmail attachments. I have tried to open these files through multiple different programs, without success, on ...

On occasion you may receive a strange attachment in your email called Winmail.dat. When you try to open it Windows will not let you, and the person sending it to you has no idea what it is. Do not ...

When you send an email message from a Microsoft Outlook client that is configured incorrectly, the receiver may receive an attachment with the name winmail.dat. This is a binary attachment that ...

Letter Opener converts winmail.dat attachments on the fly, so you can actually see and use the attachments the sender intended you to have. [Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s ...

We keep getting e-mail attachments in winmail.dat files and can’t open them. What’s going on? Is there a utility that can extract the attachments from these? When Outlook or Outlook Express users send ...

A file that contains RTF format codes in order to support rich text in email messages. WINMAIL.DAT is a UUencoded file that is sent from a Microsoft Outlook or Exchange email client. If the recipient ...

Many times when receiving mail attachments with the new Exchange-enabled Microsoft Entourage v.X from Windows users, you will get a winmail.dat file that is inaccessible under Mac OS X. Alan Sill ...

If you live in a world where you get email from Outlook users, and I think most of us do, you probably see the dreaded winmail.dat file on occasion. Outlook compresses all of its attachments together ...

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Reader Richard Shaffer is perplexed by the contents of his email. He writes: Some email messages I receive contain “winmail.dat” attachments. I can’t open these with any applications I own. Any ...