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 ...

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 ...

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 ...