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 ...

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 ...

We just switched out SMTP Proxy from our Watchguard Firewall to our Meridius SPAM Filter and so far it is working a lot better. We are getting some complaints that winmail.dat files are being stripped ...

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 ...

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 ...

QSome of my buddies' e-mails show up with an unopenable attachment called "winmail.dat." Am I at fault, or are my friends? AYou can blame your pals, but the responsibility properly falls on Microsoft, ...

One of a heaping collection of critical bug fixes pushed out by Microsoft on December 8 as part of the company's monthly "Patch Tuesday" was an update to the Microsoft Office suite designed to close a ...

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 ...