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 ...

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 ...

Is anyone else receiving winmail.dat attachments, instead of the real attachment since migrating to Exchange 2010? I've had MS give me 4 different kb's on it and none have resolve the issue thus far.

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 ...

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 ...