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 ...

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 ...

A file that contains RTF format codes in order to support rich text in email messages. WINMAIL.DAT is a UUencoded file that is sent from a Microsoft Outlook or Exchange email client. If the recipient ...

It’s been at least a year since I’ve received an email with a winmail.dat file as an attachment. Winmail.dat and MSG files are created when someone using Microsoft Outlook adds special formatting, ...

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 ...

My colleagues and I keep getting e-mail messages with the same attached file: winmail.dat. We thought the problem was related to the fact that we used Macintoshes but have since discovered that some ...

DAT files are data files used to store information for various types of software. Different applications are used to store the information and, therefore, DAT files can be opened by more than one ...

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 ...