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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Enolsoft (www.enolsoft.com) has released Winmail Viewer 3.0, an update of its tool for opening and reading all the contents of a Winmail.dat file, including the text (RTF, TXT and HTML encode) and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...