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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’ve all seen mysterious .dat file attachments in our inboxes from time to time. In most cases the .dat attachment originates in Microsoft Outlook, which produces outgoing messages using a slightly ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you've ever received a forward from an Outlook user in Mail.app containing an attached winmail.dat file, you probably scratched your head wondering why this strange file ended up in your inbox and ...

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 ...

I have a client that is trying to send word docs to two different companies. Those companies get winmail.dat attachments instead of the .doc file. I have went in and sent the .doc to my gmail account ...

I was confused by your answer regarding winmail.dat. The file cannot be opened traditionally, at least to obtain what the receiver believes to be valuable contents. Rather, it’s used internally by ...