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 ...

Q: I am using Microsoft Outlook as my email client. My friends tell me my emails to them include an attachment called Winmail.dat. How do I keep my Outlook from sending this worthless attachment? A: ...

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 ...