If you can’t convince the sender to use standard email formats, you also have a few options for reading these Winmail.dat-formatted messages. On the Mac, TNEF’s Enough, can open winmail.dat files.

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 ...

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?

On the other hand, if you don't want to shell out the cash or deal with the nag screen, you could also download TNEF's Enough, which also lets you open winmail.dat files and is freeware.

Q: Most of my e-mails from work come with winmail attachments. I have tried to open these files through multiple different programs, without success, on iPhone iPad, and my PC. How can I open ...

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 ...

Q. I received e-mail from a relative that says it is in a winmail.dat file. When I try to open the file, I get a message that says something like: "You are attempting to open a dat file. They are ...

My S7 using @cox.net reported having a winmail.dat file attached, which I could not open. ... File Winmail.dat is Outlook’s way of preserving data when an email is sent in Rich Text Format (RTF).

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 ...