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 ...

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 ...

Q: My wife and I both have laptop computers. Should the battery be removed when it is plugged in? We seldom use the battery. A: The way the average computer user uses a laptop, the battery is seldom ...

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 ...

It’s been at least a year since I’ve received an email with a winmail.dat file as an attachment. Winmail.dat and MSG files are created when someone using Microsoft Outlook adds special formatting, ...

Q: I use Microsoft Outlook, but a lot of folks I send emails to do not. I get complaints from some of my friends (especially those that read my emails on their iPhones) that rather than message ...