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. Winmail.dat is a proprietary email file format generated by Outlook ...

The most interesting solution from a reader was to open the winmail.dat file in Notepad to identify the correct filename for the attachment, then re-name the winmail.dat file with the correct ...

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 ...

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?

But if you’re not a Microsoft Outlook user, the files come over as an inaccessible winmail.dat files. There is software that will open such files — just search for Winmail.dat decoder.

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 ...

Finally, try WMDecode, a free utility that will scan the Winmail.dat file for attachments (and only attachments, not the formatted version of the e-mail) and save the items along with their ...

That could be harmful to the computer and the operating system. Q: I have received an email with an attachment called winmail.dat that I am unable to open. Can you tell me how to access this file?

If you regularly receive winmail.dat files from business associates, Letter Opener is well worth the investment.

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 ...