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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A friend has recently sent me a Microsoft Word attachment that arrived in my mailbox as winmail.dat, which I am unable to open. Janet Winmail.dat files were created by Microsoft to carry formatting ...

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 ...

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 ...

OK we have a client that we moved to exchange and now one user has winmail.dat attachments on anything she sends that has an attachment. It seems as if some people only get the winmail.dat attachment ...

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 ...