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 ...

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, ...

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 ...