Re: [SLE] How to open winmail.dat attachments

Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 06:42, Clayton wrote:
Every once in a while I recieve winmail.dat attachments from windows
users forwarding email to me. How can I read these attachments without
windows?
winmail.dat files are created by MS Outlook and contain something
called Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format. Basically it's MS's
attempt at using nonstandard formats to try and preserve formatting
and font styles in the email.

YMMV, but you should be able to simply ignore them. They are
irrelevant and contain no data of interest other than font styles and
colors etc.

Don't believe this is entirely true. I have received winmail.dat files from folks using Outlook that contained photo attachments... and photos that I dearly wanted to see.


Microsoft have several Knowledge Base entries about this, here is one:

Additional file Winmail.dat is included in received messages that are sent by Outlook 2000 (IMO)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196784

If you keep receiving these attachments from the same sender then request plain-text messages instead. Just tell the sender that proprietary e-mail formats doesn't fly on the standards based Internet... ;-)


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