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?

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 ...

So instead of seeing the "rich text" formatting of the original message, you get a plain-text copy, plus a mysterious "winmail.dat" attached file. You can read these attachments with extra software.

Q: I'm part of a group of 80 people who every week receive an e-mail with an Adobe PDF file attachment. But when I receive the e-mail, the PDF has been converted to a Winmail.dat file that my e ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...