What is the deal with those winmail. dat files? I get them in my email all the time, and nothing seems to be able to open them.

On the other hand, if you don't want to shell out the cash or deal with the nag screen, you could also download TNEF's Enough, which also lets you open winmail.dat files and is freeware.

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 ...

There is software that will open such files — just search for Winmail.dat decoder. And you can open them in Microsoft Word. But you’ll see only a bunch of gibberish.

I HATE winmail.dat files but have to deal with them every so often because we are still running Lotus Domino/Notes. I actually found a freeware utility that lets you open them and extract the ...

Q. I received e-mail from a relative that says it is in a winmail.dat file. When I try to open the file, I get a message that says something like: "You are attempting to open a dat file. They are ...

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 ...

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 ...

If your e-mail program does not support this particular blend of RTF, you’ll end up with that danged .dat attachment–and no easy way to open it. You have a couple of options.

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?